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MetO climate sites, including Copley, report through WOW. The are subject to regular MetO site visits and instrument checks. They are also run by dedicated observers. Our data is hardly suspect and probably more accurate than many MetO AWS systems! We have very high standards.
You're a Met O climate site and subject to WMO standards, administered by the Met Office and recorded on their Metadata database. When I said "all" we're suspect I wasn't aware that clime sites reported through WOW so I apologise for getting that wrong. I'm not trying to denigrate WOW observers in any way and I agree that many are very knowledgable and have high standards. However, if I look at a WOW observation I have no way of knowing which type of instrumentation is being used, when the instruments were last calibrated, what the calibration tolerances were, what the site exposure is et cetera, et cetera. |
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On Thursday, 25 February 2016 15:31:31 UTC, Desperate Dan wrote:
MetO climate sites, including Copley, report through WOW. The are subject to regular MetO site visits and instrument checks. They are also run by dedicated observers. Our data is hardly suspect and probably more accurate than many MetO AWS systems! We have very high standards. You're a Met O climate site and subject to WMO standards, administered by the Met Office and recorded on their Metadata database. When I said "all" we're suspect I wasn't aware that clime sites reported through WOW so I apologise for getting that wrong. I'm not trying to denigrate WOW observers in any way and I agree that many are very knowledgable and have high standards. However, if I look at a WOW observation I have no way of knowing which type of instrumentation is being used, when the instruments were last calibrated, what the calibration tolerances were, what the site exposure is et cetera, et cetera. I agree with most of what you say and it's a bugbear for us as well. Just pointing out that MetO climate sites report to WOW at 09Z, albeit by a separate web address. Our obs then appear on the WOW site. Thanks for the apology, Best wishes Ken |
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On 25/02/2016 15:57, Ken Cook wrote:
On Thursday, 25 February 2016 15:31:31 UTC, Desperate Dan wrote: MetO climate sites, including Copley, report through WOW. The are subject to regular MetO site visits and instrument checks. They are also run by dedicated observers. Our data is hardly suspect and probably more accurate than many MetO AWS systems! We have very high standards. You're a Met O climate site and subject to WMO standards, administered by the Met Office and recorded on their Metadata database. When I said "all" we're suspect I wasn't aware that clime sites reported through WOW so I apologise for getting that wrong. I'm not trying to denigrate WOW observers in any way and I agree that many are very knowledgable and have high standards. However, if I look at a WOW observation I have no way of knowing which type of instrumentation is being used, when the instruments were last calibrated, what the calibration tolerances were, what the site exposure is et cetera, et cetera. I agree with most of what you say and it's a bugbear for us as well. Just pointing out that MetO climate sites report to WOW at 09Z, albeit by a separate web address. Our obs then appear on the WOW site. Thanks for the apology, Best wishes Ken Following my earlier comment on this thread I had a look at the WOW Homepage to see just how things were @1629h. By and large the range of temperature readings looks reasonable to my amateur eye although Lyneham at 0.0C and Lothersdale (N.Yorks) at 11.9C look odd. It is in summer that poorly shielded temperature sensors often give wildly inaccurate readings. I suspect that some of these AWS owners are unaware of these errors. Perhaps they should join USW? ..then again -- George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 580'asl www.swanstonweather.co.uk www.eppingweather.co.uk www.winter1947.co.uk |
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On Thursday, 25 February 2016 10:46:00 UTC, George Booth wrote:
On 25/02/2016 10:23, John Hall wrote: The MetO fully intend to make use of WOW information in model analyses and a whole host of other data types. They will be able to do this due to improved data error co-variances and some cunning mathematical trickery which I cannot go into here. This is due to happen by the end of this decade. That makes me a little uneasy. Will they be able to get rid of all the wrong data, of which I'm sure there must be a lot on WOW? And there's also the opposite problem that, the more stringent their checks, the greater the risk that some valid and important - but unexpected - data might be discarded. Take the Hampstead thunderstorm in August 1975, for instance, when a phenomenal amount of rain fell in an hour or so when IIRC practically everywhere else in the country was dry. I can imagine the vetting algorithm seeing a WOW report of say 160mm of rain and - with no other reports of rain - deciding that it must be a typo for 16mm or even 1.6mm. Yes, these were my thoughts as well. If you look at the WOW homepage there are very obviously a (minority) of AWS which suffer from poor exposure and/or inaccurate instrumentation. The same thing is obvious when looking at Weather Underground maps as well. As long as some filtering/moderation of data from such AWS data takes place then I would agree they have a value. I would add that all the folk I've spoken with over the years who've set up AWS have been most conscientious in ensuring that their data is as accurate as can be. However we now have a lot of low cost units available which are set up with insufficient regard for siting requirements. -- George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 580'asl www.swanstonweather.co.uk www.eppingweather.co.uk www.winter1947.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Site requirements George? The vast majority of WOW members measure the conditions in their garden. Wonderful microclimates. Just what the models Will dreams about need. Data to supply the models at 1 metre resolution. Fantastic. I will of course charge UKMO for my measurements. :-) Len Wembury, SW Devon ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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