EMC-NCO Implementation Meeting (November 16, 2010):

• Meeting Minutes: PDF or Word
• Boilerplate for  Implementation Kick Off Meeting Agenda: Word
• Preliminary Project Briefing to NCO: PDF or PPT

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The following documents should be considered DRAFTS until at least November 30, 2010. They are available for browsing, however. Some links may be inactive, as some drafts have not yet been posted. Any feedback, comments, or constructive criticism should be emailed to stacie(dot)bender(at)noaa.gov. Thanks!

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Interpretation of NCEP PREPBUFR Event Quality Marks and Reason Codes Applied to Aircraft Data by the new PREPACQC Quality Control Module: PDF or Word

Accompanying Tables:
• Table of QC Decisions coming out of the new PREPACQC: PDF or XLS
• Table of reasons why reports are marked with certain QMs by the core QC code: PDF or XLS or TXT (text file is originally from NRL)

Summary of files that are output by the new PREPACQC: PDF or Word

Documents added by Dennis Keyser:

• ACQC.doc

Documentation/Papers about use/QC of meteorological obs from aircraft:

• Moninger, William R., Richard D. Mamrosh, Patricia M. Pauley, 2003: Automated Meteorological Reports from Commercial Aircraft. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 203.216.


• Pauley, Patricia M., 2002: Telling North from South: An Example of an Error in Automated Aircraft Data. Wea. Forecasting, 17, 334.336.

• Stickland, J., AMDAR Panel, Pauley P., 2002: Procedures for Quality Control and Exchange of Results. WMO EM/GDPS/QC/Doc. 3(5).