Hi John,

I'll give that forum a go, thanks for that.

And yeah, I have also seen a lot of people on various forums complaining 
about the quality of the analysis. It just surprised me that no station in 
the UK (or anywhere in the world I checked outside of North America 
actually) seems to have it up and running, so I've been obsessively trying 
to get to the bottom of it.

My CWOP station is FW8519 - (and meikleobney.net if you're interested :) )

Lewis

On Friday, 6 November 2020 at 02:08:43 UTC [email protected] wrote:

> A good place to ask is here:
> https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=15.0
>
> You may be disappointed when you do get his working as the reports have 
> been wacky for some time (although, very recently, they seem to be better).
>
> You don’t mention your station.  Would you share it?
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> On Nov 5, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Lewis McCallum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> So this isn't exactly a weewx question, but I'm just looking for knowledge 
> from people who understand a bit about uploading to CWOP/MADIS. MADIS 
> support has been super dismissive of my questions (short single-sentence 
> replies to my emails) so I'm just looking for some info. I know there's a 
> lot of pretty knowledgeable people on here who use the services I'm asking 
> about, so I thought I'd ask here.
>
> In particular, I'm interested in the MADIS quality checks that are run. If 
> you upload to CWOP you eventually get a site on gladstonefamily.net where 
> you can track the quality checks of your data and then potentially improve 
> your data quality over time. However, I was disappointed to see my station 
> (UK) wasn't showing full analysis. I don't have an average error/standard 
> deviation for any variable. I then did some exploring and discovered that I 
> could find no UK station which does show this info. All US stations I 
> checked, however, gave full analysis. 
>
> I emailed to ask and got a blunt single sentence response from MADIS 
> saying "US and UK treated the same". I did some exploring of the actual raw 
> MADIS QC data and discovered that for all UK stations I checked (once I'd 
> translated the annoying bitmasks), none of them had had a "Stage 3" check 
> carried out, while all US stations I checked did have this check (where, to 
> my knowledge, stage 3 is the stage which compares station data to the 
> network of other stations and produces the error in your data for each 
> observation). I've pointed this out to MADIS support but believe I am now 
> being ignored for pestering them so much.
>
> Essentially I've come here to ask if anyone has a good understanding of 
> the MADIS quality check system, and can explain to me why only North 
> American stations are getting Stage 3 checks carried out. There must be a 
> valid reason for this, but it's frustrating to just be told by MADIS that 
> "there is no difference" when there clearly is. I was looking forward to 
> improving my data quality and it looks like I just sort of can't because 
> MADIS isn't doing the checks that they seem to be claiming to carry out.
>
> Can anyone shed some light?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Lewis
>
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