Performance of Quality Assurance Procedures for an Applied Climate Information System

• Published in: Journal of atmospheric and oceanic technology Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 105 - 112
• Main Authors: Hubbard, K G, Goddard, S, Sorensen, W D, Wells, N, Osugi, T T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston American Meteorological Society 01.01.2005
• Subjects: Climate; Environmental assessment; Hydrologic data; Information systems; Precipitation; Quality assurance; Quality control; Regression analysis; Temperature

Valid data are required to make climate assessments and to make climate-related decisions. The objective of this paper is threefold: to introduce an explicit treatment of Type I and Type II errors in evaluating the performance of quality assurance procedures, to illustrate a quality control approach...