Quality Checks offered by the BSRN Toolbox


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Holger.Schmithuesen [ at ] awi.de

Abstract

The BSRN Toolbox is a software package supplied by the WRMC and is freely available to all station scientists and data users. The main features of the package include a download manager for Station- to-Archive files, a tool to convert files into human readable TAB-separated ASCII-tables (similar to those output by the PANGAEA database), and a tool to check data sets for violations of the "BSRN Global Network recommended QC tests, V2.0" quality criteria. The latter tool creates quality codes, one per measured value, indicating if the data are "physically possible," "extremely rare," or if "intercomparison limits are exceeded.” In addition, auxiliary data such as solar zenith angle or global calculated from diffuse and direct can be output. All output from the QC tool can be visualized using PanPlot, which is also freely available. Documentation for the BSRN toolbox can be found at http://wiki.pangaea.de/wiki/BSRN_Toolbox.



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12th Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) Scientific Review and Workshop, 01 Aug 2012 - 03 Aug 2012, Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germany.
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36656
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Schmithüsen, H. (2012): Quality Checks offered by the BSRN Toolbox , 12th Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) Scientific Review and Workshop, Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germany, 1 August 2012 - 3 August 2012 .


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