Quality assurance procedures for mesoscale meteorological data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1565-1582

  Fiebrich, Christopher A ^a   Morgan, Ynthia R ^a   Mccombs, Alexandria G ^a   Hall Jr , Peter K ^b   Mcpherson, Renee A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b IBERDROLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data processing; Mesoscale processes; Quality assurance control

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TEST; DATA QUALITY; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE PROCESS; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; OKLAHOMA; QA PROGRAM; QUALITY ASSURANCE/CONTROL; SENSOR CALIBRATION; SPACE AND TIME;

METEOROLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL;

DATA PROCESSING;

DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; WEATHER STATION;

EID: 77958482959     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHA1433.1     Document Type: Article

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