Unregistered User Registration Sample Daily Report Sample Monthly Report Registered User Logon Hourly Daily Daily ETo Variance Monthly Monthly Average ETo Quality Control QC Overview Current Flag Summary Current Hourly Flags Current Daily Flags Former Flag Summary Former Hourly Flags Former Daily Flags More Info Station List Data Types Data Formats Data Size		Current Flag Summary Following is a short description of the flags currently in use. The testing procedure used for specific parameters can be found in the current daily and hourly flags specifications. The current quality control criteria flags fall into two categories: Severe where Flag Description I Data value has no meaning/ignore M Missing S Sensor is not in service or data is out of sensor threshold Informative where Flag Description A Historical average E, T Historical average of one of the sensors used to calculate a parameter H Daily data value flagged when corresponding hourly data is M, Q, and S. This flag is not set when the corresponding hourly data is N. J Monthly data value flagged when some daily data are missing K Monthly data value flagged when daily data value are flagged L Monthly data value flagged when some daily data are missing and some are flagged N Data value is not collected by this station P Quality test pending Q All quality control could not be performed because a comparison sensor is severe. This flag is not set when the comparison sensor is N R Data is far out of historical limits Y Data is moderately out of historical limits If you have questions, please contact the following: Bekele Temesgen Department of Water Resources Office of Water Use Efficiency P.O. Box 942836 Sacramento, CA 94236-0001 temesgen@water.ca.gov Simon Eching Department of Water Resources Office of Water Use Efficiency P.O. Box 942836 Sacramento, CA 94236-0001 seching@water.ca.gov Reference: Eching, S.O, and D. Moellenberndt. 1998. Technical elements of CIMIS, the California Irrigation Management Information System : State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Water Resources, Division of Planning and Local Assistance, 63 p. Meek, D.W. and Hatfield, J.L.1994. Data quality checking for single station meteorological databases. Agricultural and forest meteorology 69:85 -109. Snyder, R.L., Pruitt, W.O., and Dong, A. 1985. An automatic weather station network for estimation of evapotranspiration. Presented at the ICID Conference on Crop Water Requirements, Paris, France, September 11-14, 1984. International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage.
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