Data quality control based on self-consistency

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3974-3991

  Steinacker, Reinhold ^a   Mayer, Dieter ^a   Steiner, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Data processing; Data quality control; Error analysis; Optimization; Quality assurance control; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

DATA APPLICATION; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; MATRIX EQUATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MICROMETEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PREPROCESSING TOOLS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SELF-CONSISTENCY; SPACE AND TIME; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS; TEMPORAL CONSISTENCY;

CURVE FITTING; DATA HANDLING; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AUTOCORRELATION; CURVATURE; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX; MICROMETEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855819816     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05024.1     Document Type: Article

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