[wxqc] Understanding the Quality Report

[John James]

Well, as further info, it's generally never 
worked. I had so many errors for a time on one 
site I thought that was just confounding things 
quite a bit, and it made it a bit tough for me to 
determine if I should have been getting information for both stations.

FWIW, were it my vote, I'd probably be happier 
with an email for each station separately, rather 
than rolled up into one chart. Having the data 
interspersed does nothing for me, and probably 
makes it hard to sift through anomalies. However, 
my view is based on the fact my two stations are 
hundreds of miles apart; if I had two stations in 
close proximity and were trying to coordinate 
things, I might feel differently. YMMV.

Thanks for looking into it.

//John


At 06:09 AM 11/2/2006, you wrote:
>This does indeed look like a problem. I was 
>trying to be 'clever' and combine all the emails 
>for one person into a single message, but it doesn't seem to work quite right.
>
>I'll take a look at it over the weekend.
>
>Philip
>
>John James wrote:
>>I have two weather stations, and I oftentimes 
>>seem to get an analysis report that has the 
>>characteristics below:  there are errors 
>>reported in the summary, but the lines in 
>>question don't show up; I get a summary for one 
>>station but not the other; I get errors for one 
>>station but not the other. Things don't seem to 
>>report consistently. Actually, this is the 
>>first time I've had this few errors, but I'm 
>>used to having the report just not be 
>>consistent. I think there is something odd 
>>about the logic trying to gather report data 
>>for both stations and report them both in one 
>>mail message. Does that make sense?
>>//John
>>
>>>Date: 2 Nov 2006 02:21:49 -0000
>>>From: Weather Quality <weather-qc at nospam.gladstonefamily.net>
>>>To: jjames at jameshillfarm.com
>>>Subject: Weather data quality report for 2006-11-01
>>>User-agent: Automated weather quality control 
>>>sender: http://weather.gladstonefamily.net 
>>><http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/>
>>>
>>>DateUTCSITEAlt (mb)Temp °FDewPt °FWind DirSpeed knts
>>>01-NOV-2006Errs CW4661 0/86 0/86 1/86 0/86 0/86
>>>01-NOV-2006Errs CW4663 0/87 1/87 0/87 0/87 0/87
>>>01-NOV-2006Smry CW4663+0.20.43+12.17-32.17-32126+0.40.6
>>>
>>>Note that times are in UTC. The values 
>>>displayed are 'Observed Error' The error value 
>>>is 'analysis - observed'. I.e. if your 
>>>observed value is higher than the computed 
>>>value, then the error will be negative. The 
>>>error readings are listed in *bold*. The row 
>>>with the time of 'Smry' is a daily summary and 
>>>the data is 'mean standard-deviation' for each 
>>>observation during that day. The 'Errs' row 
>>>contains the number of samples in error / the 
>>>number of samples (as seen by MADIS). This may 
>>>indicate more observations that are shown 
>>>above. This is due to the differing limits 
>>>used by this reporting program and the MADIS program itself.
>>>
>>>For more information:
>>>
>>>     * Daily graph
>>> 
>>><http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/qchart/C4663,C4661?date=20061102>.
>>>
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>>
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>>John W. James
>>CW4661, CW4663
>>Web:  < http://www.jameshillfarm.com/>
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