VOS-Clim ship suspect list for March 2010 ************************************************* Monitoring centre: Met Office, UK. All VOS-Clim ship data is monitored: against background 6-hour forecast fields for all variables except SST, for which analysed fields from the previous day are used. Key to table below ------------------ NumObs : number of observations from the ship during the month %GE : percentage of obs with gross errors (for GE limits see below) StdDvn : standard deviation of obs-background, excluding obs with gross errors Bias : mean obs-background, excluding obs with gross errors RMS : root mean square of obs-background, excluding obs with gross errors Suspect selection criteria for each variable: At least 20 observations from the ship and one or more of the following:- %GE > 10% |Bias| > Bias limit (see below) StdDvn > StdDvn limit (see below) Limits: | Press.| Wind Speed | Direct.| Air Temp.| Rel.Hum.| SST | ------- | (hPa) | (m/s) | (deg) | (deg C) | (%) | (deg C)| Bias limit | 2.5 | 5 | 30 | 2.0 | 12 | 2.0 | StdDvn limit | 5.0 | 10 | 60 | 4.0 | 20 | 4.0 | GE limit | 15.0 | 25 | 150 | 10.0 | 50 | 10.0 | Callsign Element NumObs %GE StdDvn Bias RMS ------------------------------------------------------------ DBBH RH 66 0 6.6 -12.1 13.7 PBEN RH 22 0 7.8 17.0 18.7 WCX7445 DIRN. 61 3 81.7 -14.8 83.0 CGBY SST 41 0 0.6 2.1 2.1 CGDP SST 138 38 0.4 1.0 1.1 VCYL SST 145 0 2.4 4.6 5.1 WFLG SST 60 0 0.6 -2.4 2.5