Ocean Data View 4 - Data Quality Control Reiner Schlitzer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Wish: All data are of highest quality. Reality…
Need to quality control data. Flag dubious data. Don‘t delete data! ODV maintains a quality flag value for every data value. Choice between 14 quality flag schemes, including SEADATANET, ODV, ARGO and others
ODV quality flag scheme
SEADATANET quality flag scheme QFSetID= SEADATANETQF Set Description: SEADATANET quality flags Reference: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/L201/1/<code> Flag Description ODVGENERICQF GTSPP ARGO SEADATANET ESEAS WOD WODSTATION WOCEBOTTLE WOCECTD WOCESAMPLE QARTOD BODC PANGAEA SMHI no quality control 1 5 Q * blank good value 2 3 probably good value probably bad value 4 7 K ? bad value 8 / B changed value R | value below detection 6 < value in excess > interpolated value T missing value 9 N value phenomenon uncertain A
SEADATANET quality flag scheme QFSetID= SEADATANETQF Set Description: SEADATANET quality flags Reference: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/L201/1/<code> Flag Description ODVGENERICQF GTSPP ARGO SEADATANET ESEAS WOD WODSTATION WOCEBOTTLE WOCECTD WOCESAMPLE QARTOD BODC PANGAEA SMHI no quality control 1 5 Q * blank good value 2 3 probably good value probably bad value 4 7 K ? bad value 8 / B changed value R | value below detection 6 < value in excess > interpolated value T missing value 9 N value phenomenon uncertain A
Purpose: Once QC is performed the quality flags can be used to filter the data by quality.
Data Editing and Quality Control easy spotting and identification of outliers or offsets painless editing of data value and quality flag logging of all value or flag modifications automatic range checks and manual or automatic editing
Manual Data Editing and Quality Control
Automatic Range Checks and Outlier Removal
All changes logged in .log file. Note: All changes logged in .log file. Can be viewed Collection>View Log file