Title

Instrument Cross-Comparisons and Automated Quality Control of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data

Author Info

S. Moore, ATK Mission Research
Gary B. Hughes, ATK Mission ResearchFollow

Recommended Citation

Published in Fifteenth ARM Science Team Meeting Proceedings: Daytona Beach, FL, March 14, 2005.

NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Gary Hughes was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.

Abstract

Within the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) instrument network, several different systems often measure the same quantity at the same site. For example, several ARM instruments measure time-series profiles of the atmosphere that were previously available only from balloon-borne radiosonde systems. These instruments include the Radar Wind Profilers (RWP) with Radio-Acoustic Sounding Systems (RASS), the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI), the Microwave Radiometer Profiler (MWRP), and the Raman Lidar (RL). ARM researchers have described methods for direct cross-comparison of time-series profiles (Coulter and Lesht 1996; Turner et al. 1996) and we have extended this concept to the development of methods for automated quality control (QC) of ARM datastreams.

Disciplines

Statistics and Probability

Publisher statement

Published by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science.