Performance of Quality Assurance Procedures on Daily PrecipitationSource: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology:;2007:;volume( 024 ):;issue: 005::page 821DOI: 10.1175/JTECH2002.1Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The search for precipitation quality control (QC) methods has proven difficult. The high spatial and temporal variability associated with precipitation data causes high uncertainty and edge creep when regression-based approaches are applied. Precipitation frequency distributions are generally skewed rather than normally distributed. The commonly assumed normal distribution in QC methods is not a good representation of the actual distribution of precipitation and is inefficient in identifying the outliers. This paper first explores the use of a single gamma distribution, fit to all precipitation data, in a quality assurance test. A second test, the multiple intervals gamma distribution (MIGD) method, is introduced. It assumes that meteorological conditions that produce a certain range in average precipitation at surrounding stations will produce a predictable range at the target station. The MIGD bins the average of precipitation at neighboring stations; then, for the events in a specific bin, an associated gamma distribution is derived by fit to the same events at the target station. The new gamma distributions can then be used to establish the threshold for QC according to the user-selected probability of exceedance. This paper also explores a test (Q test) for precipitation, which uses a metric based on comparisons with neighboring stations. The performance of the three approaches is evaluated by assessing the fraction of ?known? errors that can be identified in a seeded error dataset. The single gamma distribution and Q-test approach were found to be relatively efficient at identifying extreme precipitation values as potential outliers. However, the MIGD method outperforms the other two QC methods. This method identifies more seeded errors and results in fewer type I errors than the other methods. It will be adopted in the Applied Climatic Information System (ACIS) for precipitation quality control.
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contributor author | You, Jinsheng | |
contributor author | Hubbard, Kenneth G. | |
contributor author | Nadarajah, Saralees | |
contributor author | Kunkel, Kenneth E. | |
date accessioned | 2017-06-09T17:23:30Z | |
date available | 2017-06-09T17:23:30Z | |
date copyright | 2007/05/01 | |
date issued | 2007 | |
identifier issn | 0739-0572 | |
identifier other | ams-84386.pdf | |
identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4227716 | |
description abstract | The search for precipitation quality control (QC) methods has proven difficult. The high spatial and temporal variability associated with precipitation data causes high uncertainty and edge creep when regression-based approaches are applied. Precipitation frequency distributions are generally skewed rather than normally distributed. The commonly assumed normal distribution in QC methods is not a good representation of the actual distribution of precipitation and is inefficient in identifying the outliers. This paper first explores the use of a single gamma distribution, fit to all precipitation data, in a quality assurance test. A second test, the multiple intervals gamma distribution (MIGD) method, is introduced. It assumes that meteorological conditions that produce a certain range in average precipitation at surrounding stations will produce a predictable range at the target station. The MIGD bins the average of precipitation at neighboring stations; then, for the events in a specific bin, an associated gamma distribution is derived by fit to the same events at the target station. The new gamma distributions can then be used to establish the threshold for QC according to the user-selected probability of exceedance. This paper also explores a test (Q test) for precipitation, which uses a metric based on comparisons with neighboring stations. The performance of the three approaches is evaluated by assessing the fraction of ?known? errors that can be identified in a seeded error dataset. The single gamma distribution and Q-test approach were found to be relatively efficient at identifying extreme precipitation values as potential outliers. However, the MIGD method outperforms the other two QC methods. This method identifies more seeded errors and results in fewer type I errors than the other methods. It will be adopted in the Applied Climatic Information System (ACIS) for precipitation quality control. | |
publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
title | Performance of Quality Assurance Procedures on Daily Precipitation | |
type | Journal Paper | |
journal volume | 24 | |
journal issue | 5 | |
journal title | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | |
identifier doi | 10.1175/JTECH2002.1 | |
journal fristpage | 821 | |
journal lastpage | 834 | |
tree | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology:;2007:;volume( 024 ):;issue: 005 | |
contenttype | Fulltext |