VOS-Clim ship suspect list for December 2010
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 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
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 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
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 A8KW3         P*       31     0     3.3     4.3     5.4
 OWFD2         P*       69     0     2.1     3.5     4.1
 WCX7445       P*      304    72     0.8     0.3     0.9

 WCX7445      T        304     0     4.2     7.9     9.0
 ZQDI9        T         24     0     1.8     2.2     2.8

 C6SI6        RH        75     0    11.0    21.5    24.1
 MSTM6        RH        24     0    24.5     7.9    25.7
 ZCDN9        RH        40     0    12.2   -16.3    20.4

 CGTF        SPEED     127     0     3.0    -5.9     6.6

 9KWP        DIRN.      24     0    75.5    46.2    88.5
 C6KD8       DIRN.      40     5    87.2    19.1    89.3
 PCAW        DIRN.      36     3    70.1   -23.5    73.9
 TBWUK14     DIRN.      26     4    93.3   -26.8    97.1
 TBWUK37     DIRN.      28     0    63.5    -1.9    63.5

 WBP3210     DIRN.     279     0    61.0     9.2    61.7
 WCX7445     DIRN.     251     0    98.0   -11.2    98.6

 3ELR6        SST       29     0     1.2     2.3     2.6
 9KKS         SST       56     2     1.0     2.4     2.6
 A8IP5        SST       58     0     1.8     2.3     2.9
 A8KW3        SST       31     0     1.2     3.2     3.4
 C6JE2        SST       21     0     1.9    -2.8     3.4

 CGDR         SST      162     4     2.1     5.1     5.5
 MSTM6        SST       48     0     4.1     0.4     4.1
 MYSU5        SST       50     0     2.4     2.0     3.1
 VQKZ6        SST       50     0     1.9    -2.3     3.0
 WCX7445      SST      658     0     3.4     5.8     6.7

 WFLG         SST       78     0     0.6    -2.6     2.7
 WNGW         SST       52     0     2.2    -2.0     3.0