I defer to Brian Nelson to answer the variable intent and creation. I do know this is for creating and improving a Climate Data Record dataset.
Heather Brown Meteorological Archive Specialist - ERT - Federal Government Contractor NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) 151 Patton Ave. Asheville, NC 28801-5001 USA [email protected] Voice: +1 828-271-4863 Fax: +1 828-271-4328 The newly formed NCEI merges the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). *Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NOAANationalClimaticDataCenter <http://www.facebook.com/NOAANationalClimaticDataCenter> Twitter: @NOAANCDC @NOAAOceanData* On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Nan Galbraith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe instead of ' radar_quality_index' NCEI could use a more general > approach; an ancillary variable of radar_qc, and then a standard attribute > that describes how the QC variable is calculated. > > As far as I know there's no way, currently, to provide such a description > in > a way that would be clear to data users, but this approach would avoid a > proliferation of quality_index standard names. > > I don't know about different radar systems, but a very similar concept > could be > applied to ADCP data, perhaps by combining echo amplitude and percent good > to get a more 'complete' QC variable. We don't routinely do that, but it > might be > useful, if we had a standard way to document the meaning of the resulting > QC > value and the way it was calculated. > > Cheers - Nan > > > On 10/5/17 1:00 PM, Jim Biard wrote: > >> >> Hi. >> >> There needs to be a full definition of the quantity that is more precise >> than the sentence below. Keep in mind that not every quantity needs a >> standard name. I have one question in particular. Is this a quantity that >> is comparable across different radars? >> >> Grace and peace, >> >> Jim >> >> >> On 10/5/17 12:21 PM, Heather Brown - NOAA Affiliate wrote: >> >>> Folks, >>> >>> Are there any opinion and/or thoughts to adding this standard name? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> H >>> >>> Heather Brown >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Brian Nelson - NOAA Federal < >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> I would like to request a standard name for a variable that >>> defines the quality of a ground based radar based on the combined >>> measure of beam blockage and the effects of vertical profile of >>> reflectivity. >>> >>> There is no such standard name available nor does an existing one >>> meet the requirements. >>> >>> The name should be: radar_quality_index >>> Units : dimensionless (1) >>> >>> Thanks >>> Brian >>> >>> >>> >>> > > -- > ******************************************************* > * Nan Galbraith Information Systems Specialist * > * Upper Ocean Processes Group Mail Stop 29 * > * Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution * > * Woods Hole, MA 02543 (508) 289-2444 * > ******************************************************* > > > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata >
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