Quality Control and Processing of Cooperative Observer Program Hourly Precipitation Data
| Autor: | Scott E. Stevens, Ronald D. Leeper, Matthew J. Menne, Anna Wilson, Michael A. Palecki, D. B. Wuertz, Bryant Korzeniewski, Jay H. Lawrimore, Thomas Trunk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Observer (quantum physics) Meteorology 010505 oceanography media_common.quotation_subject Control (management) Environmental science Quality (business) Precipitation 01 natural sciences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hydrometeorology. 21:1811-1825 |
| ISSN: | 1525-7541 1525-755X |
| DOI: | 10.1175/jhm-d-19-0300.1 |
| Popis: | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has operated a network of Fischer & Porter gauges providing hourly and subhourly precipitation observations as part of the U.S. Cooperative Observer Program since the middle of the twentieth century. A transition from punched paper recording to digital recording was completed by NOAA’s National Weather Service in 2013. Subsequently, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) upgraded its quality assurance and data stewardship processes to accommodate the new digital record, better assure the quality of the data, and improve the timeliness by which hourly precipitation observations are made available to the user community. Automated methods for removing noise, detecting diurnal variations, and identifying malfunctioning gauges are described along with quality control algorithms that are applied on hourly and daily time scales. The quality of the hourly observations during the digital era is verified by comparison with hourly observations from the U.S. Climate Reference Network and summary of the day precipitation totals from the Global Historical Climatology Network dataset. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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