QC Resources

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Publications about Quality Control

(abstract) The National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) has an extensive program to reduce greatly the chances of transmitting degraded measurements. These measurements are taken from its network of buoys and Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) stations (Meindl and Hamilton, 1992). This paper discusses improvements to the real-time software that automatically validates the observations. In effect, these improvements codify rules data analysts—who have years of experience with our system—use to detect degraded data.