AWEKAS - Distance from other stations for comparison [solved]

The "nearest stations" idea is quite useless when it comes to data quality checking, I must say.

In a place like the town I live in, on the coast, surrounded by sierras, with continental climate areas amidst mediterranean coastal climate areas, comparing my data to those of stations 20 or 50 kms away is just silly. But that's the way things are done here and there's nothing one can do about it, I'm afraid. I'm happy to upload my data here. As for the rest, I just don't think about it.

Zitat

Lancaster, nobody tells you that your station has to look like in your data to one that is in the range of 50 km. Moreover, even within your city may have a station on the terrace of a 12 floor and another at 2 meters on the ground and obviously the wind and temperature data primarily be different. The Data Quality System is to provide guidance to operators of any problems that may arise with a particular sensor, and evidently the operator has to look at nearby stations with the same weather and geographical conditions. In this post explain the system.
On the other hand, the barometer comparison with nearby stations is entirely usefull.

Best regards

Actually the barometer part is the only useful one. A deviation on those data surely implies some kind of problem with the station's adjustments, as the data logically mustn't vary much from one place to another if the pressure is corrected. The pressure comparison is the most stable one. The rest... well it's all anecdotic. It doesn't mean a thing if the stations around me register mean temperature or wind data that are consistently (or the contrary) lower or higher than mine. There's no point in comparing me, Vilanova, for instance with Vilafranca, which is less than 20 kms away up behind the mountains and with a totally different weather. There's no point in comparing me with Barcelona which is 50 kms away. There's more point in comparing me with Vendrell or Cunit, for instance. Etc etc.
I don't really pay much attention to the quality checking system because of these reasons. The only time I have to look at it is when I see notes on my data because there just happend to be no wind for two days almost, and I'm told to check my software (which is perfectly ok), as if I or my station could have any power over nature's whims ...