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National Climatic Data Center Quality Assurance Procedures for Temperature Data
Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is mandated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to perform data management functions of acquisition, quality assessment, archive and dissemination services for the nations meteorological/climatological data. The primary variable used by the largest spectrum of users is temperature. This paper describes the quality assurance procedures that are applied to both hourly and daily temperature data. This includes discussion on: station internal consistency checks, extremes checks, climatology checks, spatial review and future quality assurance plans
Joint Session 2, Weather Derivatives and the Value of Forecasts(Joint with the Symposium on Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges and 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)
Thursday, 13 February 2003, 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
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