VOS-Clim ship suspect list for February 2015 ************************************************* 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ C6AV5 PMSL 26 0 1.0 2.6 2.8 OYGR2 PMSL 17 0 4.9 0.3 4.9 PCIH PMSL 34 0 0.8 -2.0 2.1 TBWUK74 PMSL 30 0 0.5 -4.3 4.3 VOCJ PMSL 84 10 0.8 -0.4 0.9 VRDW2 PMSL 38 0 2.9 2.3 3.7 2EZE5 T 26 0 2.4 2.9 3.8 BATEU07 T 276 11 0.6 0.0 0.6 CGHL T 132 0 2.9 -2.0 3.5 PBBB T 22 0 1.7 2.5 3.0 PDHO T 40 0 2.1 2.8 3.5 2AUO5 RH 82 0 11.6 14.3 18.5 8PSH RH 121 0 6.0 13.5 14.7 C6AV5 RH 27 0 12.3 18.0 21.8 DCUJ2 RH 26 0 14.2 -15.4 20.9 DDVK2 RH 72 0 8.7 -13.2 15.8 DQVM RH 22 0 16.1 13.8 21.2 MYMY6 RH 20 0 4.3 14.6 15.2 OXOS2 RH 25 0 14.2 12.4 18.8 OZCZ2 RH 34 0 13.8 17.4 22.2 PJHA RH 19 0 8.2 17.2 19.1 TBWUK52 RH 21 0 8.7 28.3 29.6 VCBT RH 15 0 8.1 29.5 30.6 VCBW RH 135 5 17.1 -21.7 27.6 ZCDN9 RH 65 0 18.5 -18.5 26.2 ZCEF3 RH 83 0 13.0 -12.7 18.2 DQVM SPEED 29 0 2.4 -4.4 5.0 MGRL4 SPEED 20 15 3.1 0.1 3.1 VRDW2 SPEED 38 0 5.1 5.5 7.5 C6AV5 DIRN. 19 0 58.6 66.9 89.0 C6CU6 DIRN. 19 0 35.0 -30.7 46.5 C6NI8 DIRN. 39 0 30.6 44.5 54.1 LXSQ DIRN. 16 0 11.9 27.4 29.9 MYSU5 DIRN. 15 0 78.0 -29.1 83.3 OZDB2 DIRN. 27 0 92.7 10.3 93.3 PBHZ DIRN. 39 0 109.8 0.6 109.8 VRJC9 DIRN. 51 0 67.5 29.2 73.5 ZCBP5 DIRN. 28 0 25.6 -25.1 35.9 2FGX5 SST 25 0 0.4 2.2 2.2 C6TQ3 SST 31 0 2.0 -2.9 3.5 CGBY SST 184 0 0.6 2.5 2.6 DJBF2 SST 53 0 0.6 -2.4 2.5 LAMG7 SST 79 0 3.0 -2.5 3.9 TBWUK70 SST 28 0 1.6 -2.4 2.9 V7OE6 SST 35 0 2.4 -2.0 3.1 VCBW SST 127 0 0.7 2.3 2.4 VCRG SST 57 0 1.5 3.3 3.6 VRDW2 SST 39 0 0.9 -2.0 2.3 VRJC9 SST 107 0 1.2 2.7 3.0 VRLI7 SST 33 0 0.7 2.4 2.5