P1.12 a Multidisciplinary Approach to Wsr-88d Data Quality Assurance
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Through experience and several field investigations, the Radar Operations Center (ROC) learned that efforts to optimize radars must be undertaken by a multidisciplinary team composed of both t echnicians and meteorologists, with weather radar-related experience in their respective fields. At the ROC, located in Norman, OK, a Data Quality (DQ) team peruses the WSR-88D network daily, proactively contacting sites, which appear to have data quality issues. The team also responds to requests from the field, via the NEXRAD Hotline, and from other ROC branches, concerning a number of issues that may arise, such as calibration, clutter filtering, and precipitation estimation. Additionally, when reques ted or required, ROC teams travel to radar sites to assist with persistent data quality problems.
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