Table F LOC | 0 | 7 | 1 # # Local BUFR Table CODE/FLAG, Master Table 0, Originating Center 7, Version 1 # This file was generated: 2023/05/30 19:03:19 # #======================================================================================================== # F-XX-YYY | MNEMONIC ; CODE <-- code table definition # | F-XX-YYY=VAL <-- dependencies, if any (comma-separated if more than one) # | VAL > | MEANING <-- code figure and meaning (first thru next-to-last) # | VAL | MEANING <-- code figure and meaning (last) #======================================================================================================== # F-XX-YYY | MNEMONIC ; FLAG <-- flag table definition # | F-XX-YYY=BIT <-- dependencies, if any (comma-separated if more than one) # | BIT > | MEANING <-- bit number and meaning (first thru next-to-last) # | BIT | MEANING <-- bit number and meaning (last) #======================================================================================================== 0-01-193 | TDMP ; CODE | 0 > | Stationary | 1 > | NE | 2 > | E | 3 > | SE | 4 > | S | 5 > | SW | 6 > | W | 7 > | NW | 8 > | N | 9 | Unknown 0-01-195 | SACO ; CODE | 0 > | European Union | 1 > | Japan | 4 | India 0-01-199 | THRPT ; CODE | 0 > | METAR report | 1 > | SPECI report | 2 | LWIS report 0-01-200 | ASMP ; CODE | 0 > | 0 knots | 1 > | 1 to 5 knots | 2 > | 6 to 10 knots | 3 > | 11 to 15 knots | 4 > | 16 to 20 knots | 5 > | 21 to 25 knots | 6 > | 26 to 30 knots | 7 > | 31 to 35 knots | 8 > | 36 to 40 knots | 9 | Over 40 knots 0-01-204 | SWPR ; CODE | 1 > | USA/NOAA/NESDIS | 4 > | USA/NOAA/NWS | 5 > | USA/university | 6 > | USA/commercial | 7 > | USA/DOD/NAVY | 8 > | USA/DOD/USAF | 9 > | USA/NASA | 12 > | EUMETSAT/METEOSAT | 13 > | GMS/MSC | 14 | India/INSAT 0-01-225 | NCNW ; CODE | 2 > | GFS/GDAS | 3 > | CDAS | 4 > | NAM | 5 > | RAP | 19 | RTMA/URMA 0-02-193 | ITSO ; CODE | 0 > | Manned station operation; past/present weather included | 1 > | Manned station operation; past/present weather omitted (no significant phenomenon to report) | 2 > | Manned station operation; past/present weather omitted (no observation, data not available) | 3 > | Automatic station operation; past/present weather included using code tables 4677 and 4561 | 4 > | Automatic station operation; past/present weather omitted (no significant phenomenon to report) | 5 > | Automatic station operation; past/present weather omitted (no observation, data not available) | 6 | Automatic station operation; past/present weather included using code tables 4680 and 4631 0-02-194 | AUTO ; CODE | 0 > | Either SAO report or METAR/SPECI report, and 'AUTO' found in report | 1 > | METAR/SPECI report with both 'AUTO' and 'A01' found in report | 2 > | METAR/SPECI report with both 'AUTO' and 'A02' found in report | 3 > | METAR/SPECI report with 'A01' found in report, but 'AUTO' not found in report | 4 | METAR/SPECI report with 'A02' found in report, but 'AUTO' not found in report 0-02-195 | ITP ; CODE | 0-55-007=151,156,157,158,159,164,165,174,175 | 21 > | Clear sounding | 23 > | Cloudy sounding | 0-55-007=120,122,132,220,221,222,232 | 1 > | iMet-1-BB (USA) | 2 > | No radiosonde - passive target (e.g. reflector) | 3 > | No radiosonde - active target (e.g. transponder) | 4 > | No radiosonde - passive temperature-humidity profiler | 5 > | No radiosonde - active temperature-humidity profiler | 6 > | No radiosonde - radio acoustic sounder | 7 > | iMet-1-AB (USA) | 8 > | No radiosonde - reserved | 9 > | No radiosonde - system unknown or not specified | 10 > | VIZ type A pressure-commutated (USA) | 11 > | VIZ type B time-commutated (USA) | 12 > | RS SDC (Space Data Corporation - USA) | 13 > | Astor (no longer made - Australia) | 14 > | VIZ MARK I MICROSONDE (USA) | 15 > | EEC Company type 23 (USA) | 16 > | Elin (Austria) | 17 > | Graw G. (Germany) | 18 > | Graw DFM-06 (Germany) | 19 > | Graw M60 (Germany) | 20 > | Indian Meteorological Service MK3 (India) | 21 > | VIZ/Jin Yang MARK I MICROSONDE (Republic of Korea) | 22 > | Meisei RS2-80 (Japan) | 23 > | Mesural FMO 1950A (France) | 24 > | Mesural FMO 1945A (France) | 25 > | Mesural MH73A (France) | 26 > | Meteolabor Basora (Switzerland) | 27 > | AVK MRZ (Russian Federation) | 28 > | Meteorit MARZ2-1 (Russian Federation) | 29 > | Meteorit MARZ2-2 (Russian Federation) | 30 > | Oki RS2-80 (Japan) | 31 > | VIZ/Valcom type A pressure-commutated (Canada) | 32 > | Shanghai Radio (China) | 33 > | UK Met Office MK3 (UK) | 34 > | Vinohrady (Czech Republic) | 35 > | Vaisala RS18 (Finland) | 36 > | Vaisala RS21 (Finland) | 37 > | Vaisala RS80 (Finland) | 38 > | VIZ LOCATE Loran-C (USA) | 39 > | Sprenger E076 (Germany) | 40 > | Sprenger E084 (Germany) | 41 > | Sprenger E085 (Germany | 42 > | Sprenger E086 (Germany) | 43 > | AIR IS - 4A - 1680 (USA) | 44 > | AIR IS - 4A - 1680 X (USA) | 45 > | RS MSS (USA) | 46 > | Air IS - 4A - 403 (USA) | 47 > | Meisei RS2-91 (Japan) | 48 > | VALCOM (Canada) | 49 > | VIZ MARK II (USA) | 50 > | Graw DFM-90 (Germany) | 51 > | VIZ-B2 (USA) | 52 > | Vaisala RS80-57H | 53 > | AVK-RF95 (Russian Federation) | 54 > | Graw DFM-97 (Germany) | 55 > | Meisei RS-016 (Japan) | 56 > | M2K2 (France) | 57 > | Modem M2K2-DC (France) | 58 > | AVK BAR (Russian Federation) | 59 > | Modem M2K2 R 1680 MHz RDF radiosonde with pressure sensor chip (France) | 60 > | Vaisala RS80/MicroCora (Finland) | 61 > | Vaisala RS80/Loran/Digicora I,II or Marwin (Finland) | 62 > | Vaisala RS80/PCCora (Finland) | 63 > | Vaisala RS80/Star (Finland) | 64 > | Orbital Sciences Corporation, Space Data Division, transponder radiosonde, type 909 11-XX, where XX corresponds to the model of the instrument (USA) | 65 > | VIZ transponder radiosonde, model number 1499-520 (USA) | 66 > | Vaisala RS80/Autosonde (Finland) | 67 > | Vaisala RS80/Digicora III (Finland) | 68 > | AVK RZM-2 (Russian Federation) | 69 > | MARL-A or Vektor-M-RZM-2 (Russian Federation) | 70 > | Vaisala RS92/Star (Finland) | 71 > | Vaisala RS90/Loran/Digicora I,II or Marwin (Finland) | 72 > | Vaisala RS90/PC-Cora (Finland) | 73 > | Vaisala RS90/Autosonde (Finland) | 74 > | Vaisala RS90/Star (Finland) | 75 > | AVK-MRZ-ARMA (Russian Federation) | 76 > | AVK-RF95-ARMA (Russian Federation) | 77 > | GEOLINK GPSonde GL98 (France) | 78 > | Vaisala RS90/Digicora III (Finland) | 79 > | Vaisala RS92/Digicora I,II or Marwin (Finland) | 80 > | Vaisala RS92/Digicora III (Finland) | 81 > | Vaisala RS92/Autosonde (Finland) | 82 > | Sippican MK2 GPS/STAR (USA) with rod thermistor, carbon element and derived pressure | 83 > | Sippican MK2 GPS/W9000 (USA) with rod thermistor, carbon element and derived pressure | 84 > | Sippican MARK II with chip thermistor, carbon element and derived pressure from GPS height | 85 > | Sippican MARK IIA with chip thermistor, carbon element and derived pressure from GPS height | 86 > | Sippican MARK II with chip thermistor, pressure and carbon element | 87 > | Sippican MARK IIA with chip thermistor, pressure and carbon element | 88 > | MARL-A or Vektor-M-MRZ (Russian Federation) | 89 > | MARL-A or Vektor-M-BAR (Russian Federation) | 90 > | Radiosonde not specified or unknown | 91 > | Pressure only radiosonde | 92 > | Pressure only radiosonde plus transponder | 93 > | Pressure only radiosonde plus radar reflector | 94 > | No pressure radiosonde plus transponder | 95 > | No pressure radiosonde plus radar reflector | 96 > | Descending radiosonde | 97 > | BAT-16P (South Africa) | 98 > | BAT-16G (South Africa) | 99 > | BAT-4G (South Africa) | 110 > | Sippican LMS5 w/Chip Thermistor, duct mounted capacitance relative humidity sensor and derived pressure from GPS height | 111 > | Sippican LMS6 w/Chip Thermistor, external boom mounted capacitance relative humidity sensor, and derived pressure from GPS height | 112 > | Jin Yang RSG-20A with derived pressure from GPS height GL-5000P (Republic of Korea) | 113 > | Vaisala RS92/MARWIN MW32 (Finland) | 114 > | Vaisala RS92/DigiCORA MW41 (Finland) | 115 > | PAZA-12M/Radiotheodolite-UL (Ukraine) | 116 > | PAZA-22/AVK-1 (Ukraine) | 117 > | Graw DFM-09 (Germany) | 119 > | Polus-MRZ-N1 (Russian Federation) | 121 > | Jin Yang 1524LA LORAN-C/GL5000 (Republic of Korea) | 122 > | Meisei RS-11G GPS radiosonde with thermistor, capacitance relative humidity sensor, and derived pressure from GPS height (Japan) | 123 > | Vaisala RS41/DigiCORA MW41 (Finland) | 124 > | Vaisala RS41/AUTOSONDE (Finland) | 125 > | Vaisala RS41/MARWIN MW32 (Finland) | 126 > | Meteolabor SRS-C34/Argus 37 (Switzerland) | 128 > | AVK - AK2-02 (Russian Federation) | 129 > | MARL-A or Vektor-M - AK2-02 (Russian Federation) | 130 > | Meisei RS06G (Japan) | 131 > | Taiyuan GTS1-1/GFE(L) (China) | 132 > | Shanghai GTS1/GFE(L) (China) | 133 > | Nanjing GTS1-2/GFE(L) (China) | 134 > | iMet-4 GPS radiosonde (USA) | 135 > | Meisei iMS-100 GPS radiosonde w/thermistor sensor, capacitance relative humidity sensor, and derived pressure from GPS height (Japan) | 141 > | Vaisala RS41 with pressure derived from GPS height/DigiCORA MW41 (Finland) | 142 > | Vaisala RS41 with pressure derived from GPS height/AUTOSONDE (Finland) | 143 > | NanJing Daqiao XGP-3G (China) | 144 > | TianJin HuaYunTianYi GTS(U)1 (China) | 145 > | Beijing Changfeng CF-06 (China) | 146 > | Shanghai Changwang GTS3 (China) | 148 > | PAZA-22M/MARL-A | 150 > | Meteolabor SRS-C50/Argus (Switzerland) | 152 > | Vaisala RS92-NGP/Intermet IMS-2000 (USA) | 153 > | AVK - I-2012 (Russian Federation) | 154 > | Graw DFM-17 (Germany) | 160 > | MARL-A or Vektor-M - I-2012 (Russian Federation) | 162 > | MARL-A or Vektor-M - MRZ-3MK (Russian Federation) | 163 > | Modem M20 radiosonde w/thermistor sensor, capacitance relative humidity sensor, and derived pressure from GPS height (France) | 164 > | Modem PilotSonde GPS radiosonde (France) | 173 > | MARL-A (Russian Federation) - ASPAN-15 (Kazakhstan) | 177 > | Modem GPSonde M10 (France) | 182 > | Lockheed Martin LMS-6 w/chip thermistor, external boom mounted polymer capacitive relative humidity sensor, capacitive pressure sensor and GPS wind | 183 > | Vaisala RS92-D/Intermet IMS 1500 w/silicon capacitive pressure sensor, capacitive wire temperature sensor, twin thin-film heated polymer capacitive relative humidity sensor and RDF wind | 184 > | iMet-54/iMet-3200/3400 GPS radiosonde with derived pressure from GPS height (South Africa) | 190 > | NCAR research dropsonde NRD94 with GPS and Vaisala RS92-based sensor module (United States) | 191 > | NCAR research dropsonde NRD41 with GPS and Vaisala RS41-based sensor module (United States) | 192 > | Vaisala/NCAR dropsonde RD94 with GPS and Vaisala RS92-based sensor module (Finland/USA) | 193 > | Vaisala/NCAR dropsonde RD41 with GPS and Vaisala RS41-based sensor module (Finland/USA) | 0-55-007=130,131,134,135,230,231,234,235 | 97 > | Inertial navigation system | 98 > | OMEGA | 0-55-007=241,242,243,245,246,247,248,249,250,251,252,253,254,255,256,257,258,259 | 1 > | IR automated winds (low density) | 2 > | IR manual winds | 3 > | Picture triplet (low density) | 4 > | Water vapor automated (low density) | 5 > | Visible manual | 6 > | Visible automated (low density) | 7 > | Gradient winds | 8 > | Picture pair | 10 > | AMSU/SSMI microwave winds | 11 > | Scatterometer | 12 > | Altimeter | 13 > | LAWS | 14 > | High-density water vapor sounder, channel 10 | 15 > | High-density water vapor sounder, channel 11 | 16 > | High-density IR imager automated winds | 17 > | High-density visible imager automated winds | 18 | High-density water vapor imager 0-02-197 | GSPC ; FLAG | 1 > | Parameter derived using observed sounder brightness temperatures | 2 > | Parameter derived using observed imager brightness temperatures | 3 > | Parameter derived using first guess information | 4 > | Parameter derived using NMC/NCEP analysis information | 5 | Parameter derived using radiosonde information 0-02-198 | GBTC ; FLAG | 1 > | Observed brightness temperature | 2 > | Brightness temperature with bias correction applied | 3 > | Brightness temperature calculated from first guess | 4 | Brightness temperature calculated from sounding 0-02-199 | ROLF ; CODE | 0 > | Roll greater than 5 degrees | 1 > | Roll less than or equal to 5 degrees | 2 | Not reported 0-02-200 | AVHC ; FLAG | 1 > | Channel 1 is present | 2 > | Channel 2 is present | 3 > | Channel 3 is present | 4 > | Channel 4 is present | 5 | Channel 5 is present 0-02-201 | SWTP ; CODE | 1 > | IR automated winds (low density) | 2 > | IR manual winds | 3 > | Picture triplet (low density) | 4 > | Water vapor automated (low density) | 5 > | Visible manual | 6 > | Visible automated (low density) | 7 > | Gradient winds | 8 > | Picture pair | 10 > | AMSU/SSMI microwave winds | 11 > | Scatterometer | 12 > | Altimeter | 13 > | LAWS | 14 > | High-density water vapor sounder, channel 10 | 15 > | High-density water vapor sounder, channel 11 | 16 > | High-density IR imager automated winds | 17 > | High-density visible imager automated winds | 18 | High-density water vapor imager 0-02-207 | PLTTYP ; CODE | 0 > | Phase II site (regional hub) | 1 > | Phase II site (GOES/HADS) | 2 > | Phase I site (direct connect) | 3 | Phase I site (GOES/HADS) 0-02-223 | CMCM ; CODE | 1 > | Wind derived from cloud motion observed in the infrared channel | 2 > | Wind derived from cloud motion observed in the visible channel | 3 > | Wind derived from motion observed in the water vapour channel | 4 | Wind derived from motion observed in a combination of spectral channels 0-04-193 | DAYW ; CODE | 0 > | Sunday | 1 > | Monday | 2 > | Tuesday | 3 > | Wednesday | 4 > | Thursday | 5 > | Friday | 6 | Saturday 0-04-216 | TCOR ; CODE | 0 > | Observation time is reported time, no correction | 1 > | Observation time corrected based on reported launch time | 2 | Observation time corrected even though launch time is missing 0-06-193 | SSTYPE ; CODE | 0 > | No type | 129 > | Nominal SST | 130 > | AVHRR-only SST | 131 > | HIRS/2-only SST | 132 > | Coastal type | 138 > | Test type | 150 > | Heat budget observation | 151 > | AVHRR-only day operational | 152 > | AVHRR-only night operational | 153 > | HIRS-only day operational | 154 > | HIRS-only night operational | 155 > | AVHRR+HIRS day operational | 156 > | AVHRR+HIRS night operational | 157 > | AVHRR - aerosol corrected - normal mode | 158 > | AVHRR - aerosol corrected - relaxed cloud mode | 159 > | Day operational relaxed cloud mode | 161 > | AVHRR-only day test | 162 > | AVHRR-only night test | 163 > | HIRS-only day test | 164 > | HIRS-only night test | 165 > | AVHRR+HIRS day test | 166 > | AVHRR+HIRS night test | 169 > | AVHRR-only day test - warm spot mode | 171 > | Day operational | 172 > | Night operational | 179 > | ITOS SST | 200 | Independent SST (ship or buoy) 0-06-194 | SSTSRC ; CODE | 0 > | No source | 1 > | NOAA-11 | 2 > | NOAA-16 | 3 > | NOAA-14 | 4 > | NOAA-15 | 5 > | NOAA-12 | 6 > | NOAA-17 | 7 > | NOAA-18 (prior to May 2005 was "NOAA-9") | 8 > | NOAA-19 | 12 > | METOP-2 | 51 > | ITOS NOAA 1 Sensor #1 | 52 > | ITOS NOAA 1 Sensor #2 | 53 > | ITOS NOAA 2 Sensor #1 | 54 > | ITOS NOAA 2 Sensor #2 | 55 > | ITOS NOAA 3 Sensor #1 | 56 > | ITOS NOAA 3 Sensor #2 | 57 > | ITOS NOAA 4 Sensor #1 | 58 > | ITOS NOAA 4 Sensor #2 | 59 > | ITOS NOAA 5 Sensor #1 | 60 > | ITOS NOAA 5 Sensor #2 | 61 > | ITOS NOAA 5 Sensor #3 | 62 > | ITOS NOAA 5 Sensor #4 | 99 > | Bogus data | 100 > | Ship data from Navy (FNMOC) | 101 > | Buoy data from TIROS collection system | 102 > | Fixed weather ship (from NCEP) | 103 > | Moving ship with name (from NCEP) | 104 > | Moving ship without name (from NCEP) | 105 > | Fixed buoy (from NCEP) | 106 > | Drifting buoy (from NCEP) | 107 | XBT (from NCEP) 0-07-246 | PQM ; CODE | 0-07-247=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-07-247=2 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 10 > | Non-synthetic bogus mass report is in the vicinity of a tropical storm | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-07-247=4 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 8 > | Observed surface pressure is > 1100 mb or < 450 mb, or is more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) surface pressure, or an observed pressure on any level is <= 0 mb or more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) pressure at same level, or a non-pressure observation failed a limit check | 9 > | Observation error is missing | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-07-247=10 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 4 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 0 (keep) is flagged | 5 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 1 (good) is flagged | 6 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 2 (neutral/default) is flagged | 7 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) is flagged | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-07-247=5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM 0-07-247 | PPC ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-07-248 | PRC ; CODE | 0-07-247=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-07-247=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-07-247=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-07-247=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-07-247=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-07-247=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-07-247=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-07-247=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-08-193 | CAT ; CODE | 0 > | Surface level (mass reports only) | 1 > | Mandatory level (upper-air profile reports) | 2 > | Significant temperature level (upper-air profile reports) | 3 > | Winds-by-pressure level (upper-air profile reports) | 4 > | Winds-by-height level (upper-air profile reports) | 5 > | Tropopause level (upper-air profile reports) | 6 > | Single level report, or report not on any of the levels denoted by other values (e.g. aircraft, satellite wind, precipitable water, etc.) | 7 > | Auxiliary levels generated via interpolation from spanning levels (upper-air profile reports) | 10 | High-resolution level (upper-air profile reports) 0-08-201 | .RE.... ; CODE | 0 > | "M" indicator present - the true value of the following parameter is below the minimum value which can be assessed with the system in use | 2 > | Neither "M" nor "P" found | 3 > | Horizontal visibility field contains either "CAVOK" or "9999" | 4 | "P" indicator present - the true value of the following parameter is greater than the maximum value which can be assessed with the system in use 0-08-202 | RCTS ; CODE | 0 > | General decoder receipt time | 1 > | NCEP receipt time | 2 > | NWSTG receipt time | 3 > | ARINC ground station receipt time | 4 > | Radiosonde TEMP AA part receipt time | 5 > | Radiosonde TEMP BB part receipt time | 6 > | Radiosonde TEMP CC part receipt time | 7 > | Radiosonde TEMP DD part receipt time | 8 > | Radiosonde PILOT AA part receipt time | 9 > | Radiosonde PILOT BB part receipt time | 10 > | Radiosonde PILOT CC part receipt time | 11 | Radiosonde PILOT DD part receipt time 0-08-220 | QFGU ; CODE | 0 > | First guess used | 1 | First guess not used 0-08-225 | HGTSIG ; CODE | 0 > | River stage | 1 > | Tide (MLLW) | 2 | Elevation of pool 0-08-226 | DCHSIG ; CODE | 0 > | Inflow | 1 > | River | 2 | Computed total project outflow 0-08-227 | FCTSIG ; CODE | 0 > | Forecast includes QPF | 1 > | Public version (external) | 2 | Nonspecific forecast data 0-10-244 | PMQ ; CODE | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 15 | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis 0-10-246 | ZQM ; CODE | 0-10-247=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-10-247=4 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 8 > | Observed surface pressure is > 1100 mb or < 450 mb, or is more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) surface pressure, or an observed pressure on any level is <= 0 mb or more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) pressure at same level, or a non-pressure observation failed a limit check | 9 > | Observation error is missing | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-10-247=10 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 4 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 0 (keep) is flagged | 5 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 1 (good) is flagged | 6 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 2 (neutral/default) is flagged | 7 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) is flagged | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-10-247=2,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM 0-10-247 | ZPC ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-10-248 | ZRC ; CODE | 0-10-247=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-10-247=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-10-247=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-10-247=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-10-247=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-10-247=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-10-247=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-10-247=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-11-217 | SQM ; CODE | 0-11-219=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-11-219=2 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 10 > | A dropwnsonde wind report is in the vicinity of a tropical storm | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=4 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 8 > | Observed surface pressure is > 1100 mb or < 450 mb, or is more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) surface pressure, or an observed pressure on any level is <= 0 mb or more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) pressure at same level, or a non-pressure observation failed a limit check | 9 > | Observation error is missing | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=7 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 10 > | An AIREP or PIREP aircraft report is used to generate a superob report | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=9 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check, or a wind profiler report failed one or more other checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=10 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 4 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 0 (keep) is flagged | 5 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 1 (good) is flagged | 6 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 2 (neutral/default) is flagged | 7 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) is flagged | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=5,6,8,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM 0-11-218 | DFQ ; CODE | 0-11-219=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-11-219=2 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 10 > | A dropwnsonde wind report is in the vicinity of a tropical storm | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=4 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 8 > | Observed surface pressure is > 1100 mb or < 450 mb, or is more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) surface pressure, or an observed pressure on any level is <= 0 mb or more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) pressure at same level, or a non-pressure observation failed a limit check | 9 > | Observation error is missing | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=7 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 10 > | An AIREP or PIREP aircraft report is used to generate a superob report | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=9 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check, or a wind profiler report failed one or more other checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=10 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 4 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 0 (keep) is flagged | 5 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 1 (good) is flagged | 6 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 2 (neutral/default) is flagged | 7 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) is flagged | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-219=5,6,8,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM 0-11-219 | DFP ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-11-220 | DFR ; CODE | 0-11-219=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-11-219=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-11-219=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-11-219=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-11-219=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-11-219=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-11-219=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-11-219=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-11-235 | TRBX ; CODE | 0 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 1 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 2 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 3 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 4 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 5 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 6 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 7 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 8 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 9 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 10 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 11 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 12 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 13 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 14 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 15 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 16 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 17 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 18 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 19 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 20 | Average value of eddy dissipation rate >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 0-11-236 | TRBX10 ; CODE | 0 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 1 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 2 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 3 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 4 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 5 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 6 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 7 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 8 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 9 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 10 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 11 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 12 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 13 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 14 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 15 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 16 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 17 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 18 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 19 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 20 | Average value of eddy dissipation rate >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 0-11-237 | TRBX21 ; CODE | 0 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 1 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 2 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 3 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 4 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 5 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 6 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 7 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 8 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 9 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 10 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 11 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 12 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 13 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 14 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 15 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 16 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 17 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 18 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 19 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 20 | Average value of eddy dissipation rate >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 0-11-238 | TRBX32 ; CODE | 0 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 1 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 2 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 3 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 4 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 5 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 6 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 7 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 8 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 9 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 10 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 11 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 12 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 13 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 14 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 15 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 16 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 17 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 18 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 19 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 20 | Average value of eddy dissipation rate >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 0-11-239 | TRBX43 ; CODE | 0 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 1 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 2 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 3 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 4 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 5 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 6 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 7 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 8 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 9 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 10 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 11 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 12 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 13 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 14 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 15 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 16 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.2 and >= 0.1 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 17 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.3 and >= 0.2 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 18 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.4 and >= 0.3 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 19 > | Average value of eddy dissipation rate < 0.5 and >= 0.4 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 | 20 | Average value of eddy dissipation rate >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1, and peak value >= 0.5 m**(2/3) s**-1 0-11-240 | WQM ; CODE | 0-11-241=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-11-241=2 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 10 > | A dropwnsonde wind report is in the vicinity of a tropical storm | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-241=4 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 8 > | Observed surface pressure is > 1100 mb or < 450 mb, or is more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) surface pressure, or an observed pressure on any level is <= 0 mb or more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) pressure at same level, or a non-pressure observation failed a limit check | 9 > | Observation error is missing | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-241=7 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 10 > | An AIREP or PIREP aircraft report is used to generate a superob report | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-241=9 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check, or a wind profiler report failed one or more other checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-241=10 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 4 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 0 (keep) is flagged | 5 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 1 (good) is flagged | 6 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 2 (neutral/default) is flagged | 7 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) is flagged | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-11-241=5,6,8,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM, or a wind profiler report did not pass median and shear checks performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list, or a wind profiler report failed shear check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed median check | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks, or a wind profiler report failed median check performed by NOAA/ESRL/GSD but passed shear check | 14 | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM 0-11-241 | WPC ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-11-242 | WRC ; CODE | 0-11-241=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-11-241=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-11-241=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-11-241=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-11-241=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-11-241=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-11-241=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-11-241=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-12-246 | TQM ; CODE | 0-12-247=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-12-247=4 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 8 > | Observed surface pressure is > 1100 mb or < 450 mb, or is more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) surface pressure, or an observed pressure on any level is <= 0 mb or more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) pressure at same level, or a non-pressure observation failed a limit check | 9 > | Observation error is missing | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-12-247=7 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 10 > | An AIREP or PIREP aircraft report is used to generate a superob report | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-12-247=8 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 8 > | A virtual temperature is generated from a specific humidity observation where either the specific humidity has a rejected quality marker other than 9 or 15, or the specific humidity has a rejected quality marker of 9 or 15 and the sensible temperature quality marker is rejected but with a value other than 9 or 15. | 9 > | A virtual temperature is generated from a specific humidity observation where the specific humidity has a rejected quality marker of 9 or 15 and the sensible temperature quality marker is either not rejected or is rejected but with a value of 9 or 15. | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-12-247=10 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 4 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 0 (keep) is flagged | 5 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 1 (good) is flagged | 6 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 2 (neutral/default) is flagged | 7 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) is flagged | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-12-247=2,5,6,9,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM 0-12-247 | TPC ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-12-248 | TRC ; CODE | 0-12-247=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-12-247=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-12-247=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-12-247=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-12-247=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-12-247=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-12-247=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-12-247=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-13-194 | INPC ; CODE | 0 > | Precipitation data are reported in sections 1 and 3; group 6RRRtR is included in both sections | 1 > | Precipitation data are reported in section 1; group 6RRRtR is included | 2 > | Precipitation data are reported in section 3; group 6RRRtR is included | 3 > | Precipitation data are not reported in either section 1 or 3; group 6RRRtR is omitted (precipitation amount = 0) | 4 | Precipitation data are not reported in either section 1 or 3; group 6RRRtR is omitted (precipitation amount is not available) 0-13-209 | TERR ; CODE | 0 > | Sea ice | 1 | Snow on land 0-13-228 | SRMK ; CODE | 0 > | None | 1 > | Snow amount based on estimate | 2 > | Snowfall melted during observation period | 3 | Snowfall melted as it landed 0-13-232 | WXTS ; CODE | 0 > | No snow | 1 | Snow 0-13-233 | WXTP ; CODE | 0 > | No ice pellets | 1 | Ice pellets 0-13-234 | WXTZ ; CODE | 0 > | No freezing rain | 1 | Freezing rain 0-13-235 | WXTR ; CODE | 0 > | No rain | 1 | Rain 0-13-246 | QQM ; CODE | 0-13-247=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-13-247=4 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 8 > | Observed surface pressure is > 1100 mb or < 450 mb, or is more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) surface pressure, or an observed pressure on any level is <= 0 mb or more than 100 mb above or below model (guess) pressure at same level, or a non-pressure observation failed a limit check, or this is an overland or oceanic clear, partly-cloudy or cloudy satellite (TOVS, GOES, DMSP) temperature sounding report` | 9 > | Observation error is missing, or a moisture observation is above 300 mb | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-13-247=10 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 4 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 0 (keep) is flagged | 5 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 1 (good) is flagged | 6 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 2 (neutral/default) is flagged | 7 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) is flagged | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-13-247=2,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM 0-13-247 | QPC ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-13-248 | QRC ; CODE | 0-13-247=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-13-247=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-13-247=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-13-247=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-13-247=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-13-247=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-13-247=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-13-247=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-15-195 | AEROTP ; CODE | 0 > | Mixed | 1 > | Dust | 2 > | Sulfate | 3 > | Smoke | 4 | Heavy absorbing smoke 0-15-196 | AFBO ; CODE | 0 > | Skipped (over land or sea) | 1 > | Standard (over land or sea) | 2 > | Adjusted for profile shape (over land or sea) | 3 > | Based on C-pair (331 and 360 mm) (over land or sea) | 10 > | Skipped (over snow or ice) | 11 > | Standard (over snow or ice) | 12 > | Adjusted for profile shape (over snow or ice) | 13 | Based on C-pair (331 and 360 mm) (over snow or ice) 0-15-199 | MLST ; FLAG | 1 > | Do not use this profile | 2 > | This profile is questionable | 5 > | This profile may have been affected by high altitude clouds | 6 > | This profile may have been affected by low altitude clouds | 7 > | The GEOS-5 data used for the temperature a priori were unavailable for this profile | 9 > | Either the retrieval diverged, or too few radiances were available for good retrieval | 10 | The task retrieving data for this profile crashed (typically a computer failure) 0-20-199 | CLAVR ; CODE | 0 > | Clear | 1 > | Probably clear | 2 > | Probably cloudy | 3 | Cloudy 0-20-201 | HBLCS ; CODE | 0 > | 0 to 50 meters | 1 > | 50 to 100 meters | 2 > | 100 to 200 meters | 3 > | 200 to 300 meters | 4 > | 300 to 600 meters | 5 > | 600 to 1000 meters | 6 > | 1000 to 1500 meters | 7 > | 1500 to 2000 meters | 8 > | 2000 to 2500 meters | 9 > | 2500 meters or more, no clouds | 14 | Height of base of cloud not known, or base of clouds at a level lower and tops at a level higher than that of the station 0-20-209 | ICAG ; CODE | 0 > | First year ice | 1 | Multiyear ice 0-20-210 | ICED ; CODE | 0 > | No edge present | 1 | Edge present 0-20-216 | SFTP ; CODE | 1 > | Vegetation | 3 > | Ice | 5 > | Ocean | 6 > | Coast | 7 > | Flooded condition | 8 > | Dense vegetation | 9 > | Dense agricultural crops | 10 > | Dry arable soil | 11 > | Moist soil | 12 > | Semi-arid surface | 13 > | Desert | 14 > | Precipitation over vegetation | 15 > | Precipitation over soil | 16 > | Composite vegetation-water | 17 > | Composite soil-water-wet soil | 18 > | Dry snow | 19 > | Wet snow | 20 | Refrozen snow 0-20-217 | SFTG ; CODE | 0 > | Land | 1 > | Vegetation-covered land | 2 > | Near coast | 3 > | Multiyear ice | 4 > | Possible ice | 5 > | Ocean | 6 | Coast 0-20-218 | SFTG85 ; CODE | 0 > | Land | 1 > | Vegetation-covered land | 2 > | Near coast | 3 > | Multiyear ice | 4 > | Possible ice | 5 > | Ocean | 6 | Coast 0-20-219 | WSST ; CODE | 0 > | Land | 2 > | Near coast | 3 > | Ice | 4 > | Possible ice | 5 > | Ocean | 6 | Coast 0-20-222 | RDST ; CODE | 0 > | No report | 1 > | Dry | 2 > | Moist | 3 > | Moist and chemically treated | 4 > | Wet | 5 > | Wet and chemically treated | 6 > | Ice | 7 > | Frost | 8 > | Snow | 9 > | Snow/Ice watch | 10 > | Snow/Ice warning | 11 > | Wet above freezing | 12 > | Wet below freezing | 13 > | Absorption | 14 > | Absorption at dewpoint | 15 > | Dew | 16 > | Black ice warning | 17 > | Othe | 18 | Slush 0-20-246 | CTPQM ; CODE | 0-20-247=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-20-247=2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 | Suspect 0-20-247 | CTPPC ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-20-248 | CTPRC ; CODE | 0-20-247=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-20-247=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-20-247=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-20-247=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-20-247=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-20-247=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-20-247=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-20-247=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-22-194 | AVGPER ; CODE | 0 > | Averaging period for sea temperature - spot values | 1 > | Averaging period for sea temperature - less than 15 minutes | 2 > | Averaging period for sea temperature - from 15 to 45 minutes | 3 > | Averaging period for sea temperature - more than 45 minutes | 4 > | Averaging period for sea temperature - data not available | 5 > | Averaging period for salinity - spot values | 6 > | Averaging period for salinity - less than 15 minutes | 7 > | Averaging period for salinity - from 15 to 45 minutes | 8 > | Averaging period for salinity - more than 45 minutes | 9 > | Averaging period for salinity - data not available | 10 > | Averaging period for surface current direction and speed - spot values | 11 > | Averaging period for surface current direction and speed - less than 15 minutes | 12 > | Averaging period for surface current direction and speed - from 15 to 45 minutes | 13 > | Averaging period for surface current direction and speed - more than 45 minutes | 14 | Averaging period for surface current direction and speed - data not available 0-22-196 | IUCSPD ; CODE | 0 > | Meters per second | 1 | Knots 0-22-246 | SSTQM ; CODE | 0-22-247=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-22-247=10 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 4 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 0 (keep) is flagged | 5 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 1 (good) is flagged | 6 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 2 (neutral/default) is flagged | 7 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) is flagged | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 > | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM | 0-22-247=2,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 11 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) was flagged by NCEP SDM | 12 > | Non-profiler observation is on the reject list | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 14 | Observation was assigned a purge flag by NCEP SDM 0-22-247 | SSTPC ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-22-248 | SSTRC ; CODE | 0-22-247=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-22-247=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-22-247=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-22-247=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-22-247=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-22-247=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-22-247=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-22-247=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-25-193 | SSTA ; CODE | 0 > | Not available | 1 | Available 0-25-194 | H8ST ; CODE | 0 > | Falls within specified limits | 1 | Exceeds specified limits 0-25-195 | GDRFLG ; CODE | 0 > | Operational Geophysical Data Record (OGDR) (produced in real time to complete IGDR) | 1 | Interim Geophysical Data Record (IGDR) (produced in near real time) 0-25-201 | SWDL ; CODE | 1 > | Deep layer | 2 | Cloud top (nominal cloud drift) 0-25-205 | TOFF ; CODE | 0 > | Good | 1 > | Redundant | 2 | Bad 0-33-192 | QMGP ; CODE | 0 > | Hold (keep) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP Senior Duty Meteorologist (SDM) for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should have the highest influence in, and always be used by, the assimilating analyses) | 1 > | Datum determined to be of good quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 2 > | Datum was either not checked, or determined to be of neutral quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 3 > | Datum determined to be of suspect quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have less than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 4 > | Datum was corrected by manual and/or automated quality control checks and is now determined to be of good quality (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 12 > | Datum is on a manually-updated reject list (should never be used by the assimilating analyses | 13 > | Datum determined to be of bad quality based on automated quality control checks (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) | 14 | Purge (reject) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP SDM for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) 0-33-193 | QMAT ; CODE | 0 > | Hold (keep) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP Senior Duty Meteorologist (SDM) for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should have the highest influence in, and always be used by, the assimilating analyses) | 1 > | Datum determined to be of good quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 2 > | Datum was either not checked, or determined to be of neutral quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 3 > | Datum determined to be of suspect quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have less than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 4 > | Datum was corrected by manual and/or automated quality control checks and is now determined to be of good quality (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 12 > | Datum is on a manually-updated reject list (should never be used by the assimilating analyses | 13 > | Datum determined to be of bad quality based on automated quality control checks (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) | 14 | Purge (reject) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP SDM for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) 0-33-194 | QMDD ; CODE | 0 > | Hold (keep) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP Senior Duty Meteorologist (SDM) for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should have the highest influence in, and always be used by, the assimilating analyses) | 1 > | Datum determined to be of good quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 2 > | Datum was either not checked, or determined to be of neutral quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 3 > | Datum determined to be of suspect quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have less than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 4 > | Datum was corrected by manual and/or automated quality control checks and is now determined to be of good quality (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 12 > | Datum is on a manually-updated reject list (should never be used by the assimilating analyses | 13 > | Datum determined to be of bad quality based on automated quality control checks (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) | 14 | Purge (reject) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP SDM for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) 0-33-195 | QMWN ; CODE | 0 > | Hold (keep) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP Senior Duty Meteorologist (SDM) for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should have the highest influence in, and always be used by, the assimilating analyses) | 1 > | Datum determined to be of good quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 2 > | Datum was either not checked, or determined to be of neutral quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 3 > | Datum determined to be of suspect quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have less than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 4 > | Datum was corrected by manual and/or automated quality control checks and is now determined to be of good quality (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 12 > | Datum is on a manually-updated reject list (should never be used by the assimilating analyses | 13 > | Datum determined to be of bad quality based on automated quality control checks (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) | 14 | Purge (reject) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP SDM for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) 0-33-200 | WSEQC1 ; FLAG | 1 > | Low confidence for cloud liquid water retrieval quality | 2 > | No retrieval for water vapor | 3 > | Low confidence for water vapor retrieval quality | 4 > | No retrieval for SST | 5 > | Low confidence for SST retrieval quality | 6 > | No retrieval for wind direction | 7 > | Low confidence for wind direction retrieval quality | 8 > | No retrieval for wind speed | 9 > | Low confidence for wind speed retrieval quality | 10 > | Wind speed is > 25 m/s (too high for accurate retrieval) | 11 > | Wind speed is < 5 m/s (too low for accurate wind direction retrieval) | 12 > | Insufficient data was available for reliable beam averaging to be performed | 13 > | SEC-based Faraday correction | 14 > | Geolocation-based Faraday correction | 15 > | Warm load correction applied to one or more channels | 16 > | Cold load correction applied to one or more channels | 17 > | Satellite altitude transient | 18 > | Threshold exceeded for sun glint angle | 19 > | 10 GHz RFI flag | 21 > | Salinity out-of-bounds or unknown | 22 > | Inland lakes and sheltered bodies of water (e.g. Great Lakes, Lake Victoria, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, etc.) | 24 > | Threshold exceeded for land contamination | 25 > | Ice flag | 26 > | Rain flag based on TBs (or from SDR processor) | 27 > | Rain flag generated by the EDR Processor | 28 > | 6.8 GHz channels not available or not used in the retrieval; SST retrievals are less accurate particularly for SST < 15 degrees C | 30 | Low confidence: Union of bits 22, 24, 25, 26 and 28 0-33-202 | UARDC ; CODE | 40 > | Report not filed | 42 > | Ground equipment failure | 43 > | Observation delayed | 44 > | Power failure | 45 > | Unfavorable weather conditions | 46 > | Low maximum altitude (< 500 meters above ground) | 47 > | Leaking balloon | 48 > | Ascent not authorized for this period | 49 > | Alert | 50 > | Ascent did not extend above the 400 hPa level | 51 > | Balloon forced down by icing conditions | 52 > | Balloon forced down by precipitation | 53 > | Atmospheric interference | 54 > | Local interference | 55 > | Fading signal | 56 > | Weak signal | 57 > | Preventive maintenance | 58 > | Flight equipment failure (transmitter, balloon, attachments, etc.) | 59 > | Reason for missing or incomplete report not specified | 80 > | Corrected report for the entire report (first plus second transmissions) | 81 > | Corrected report for the entire first transmission | 82 > | Corrected report for the entire second transmission | 110 > | Id wind level flag has illegal value | 111 > | TEMP mandatory level indicator not in expected location | 112 > | TEMP significant level indicator not in expected location | 113 > | PILOT mandatory level pressure group not in expected location | 114 > | PILOT significant level height group not in expected location | 115 > | Group has invalid length | 116 > | Recovery attempts were halted (too many errors) | 117 > | PILOT significant level height is above 100 mb in part BB | 118 > | PILOT significant level height is below 100 mb in part DD | 119 > | Too many TEMP mandatory level heights encoded as "000" | 120 | Id wind level flag is miscoded 0-33-207 | QMPR ; CODE | 0 > | Hold (keep) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP Senior Duty Meteorologist (SDM) for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should have the highest influence in, and always be used by, the assimilating analyses) | 1 > | Datum determined to be of good quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 2 > | Datum was either not checked, or determined to be of neutral quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 3 > | Datum determined to be of suspect quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have less than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 4 > | Datum was corrected by manual and/or automated quality control checks and is now determined to be of good quality (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 12 > | Datum is on a manually-updated reject list (should never be used by the assimilating analyses | 13 > | Datum determined to be of bad quality based on automated quality control checks (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) | 14 | Purge (reject) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP SDM for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) 0-33-208 | QMWH ; CODE | 0 > | Hold (keep) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP Senior Duty Meteorologist (SDM) for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should have the highest influence in, and always be used by, the assimilating analyses) | 1 > | Datum determined to be of good quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 2 > | Datum was either not checked, or determined to be of neutral quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 3 > | Datum determined to be of suspect quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have less than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 4 > | Datum was corrected by manual and/or automated quality control checks and is now determined to be of good quality (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 12 > | Datum is on a manually-updated reject list (should never be used by the assimilating analyses | 13 > | Datum determined to be of bad quality based on automated quality control checks (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) | 14 | Purge (reject) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP SDM for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) 0-33-215 | CORN ; CODE | 0 > | Not corrected | 1 > | Corrected by report originator | 2 | Corrected by NCEP SDM 0-33-216 | SWQM ; CODE | 0 > | Hold (keep) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP Senior Duty Meteorologist (SDM) for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should have the highest influence in, and always be used by, the assimilating analyses) | 1 > | Datum determined to be of good quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 2 > | Datum was either not checked, or determined to be of neutral quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 3 > | Datum determined to be of suspect quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have less than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 4 > | Datum was corrected by manual and/or automated quality control checks and is now determined to be of good quality (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 12 > | Datum is on a manually-updated reject list (should never be used by the assimilating analyses | 13 > | Datum determined to be of bad quality based on automated quality control checks (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) | 14 | Purge (reject) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP SDM for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) 0-33-217 | RFLG ; CODE | 0 > | Wind speed error < 2 meters per second (all algorithms) | 1 > | Wind speed error 2-5 meters/second (FNOC Goodberlet algorithm); wind speed error > 2 meters per second (NCEP Neural Net algorithm) | 2 > | Wind speed error 5-10 meters/second (FNOC Goodberlet algorithm) | 3 | Wind speed error > 10 meters/second (FNOC Goodberlet algorithm) 0-33-218 | QMST ; CODE | 0 > | Hold (keep) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP Senior Duty Meteorologist (SDM) for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should have the highest influence in, and always be used by, the assimilating analyses) | 1 > | Datum determined to be of good quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 2 > | Datum was either not checked, or determined to be of neutral quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 3 > | Datum determined to be of suspect quality based on manual and/or automated quality control checks (should have less than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 4 > | Datum was corrected by manual and/or automated quality control checks and is now determined to be of good quality (should have greater than average influence in the assimilating analyses, subject to possible further quality control checks) | 12 > | Datum is on a manually-updated reject list (should never be used by the assimilating analyses | 13 > | Datum determined to be of bad quality based on automated quality control checks (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) | 14 | Purge (reject) flag placed on datum by either the NCEP SDM for non-marine reports, or by manual and/or automated quality control checks for marine reports (should never by used by the assimilating analyses) 0-33-221 | QCA ; FLAG | 1 > | Kalman filter was applied | 2 > | Statistical model consistency check was applied | 3 > | Forecast model consistency check was applied | 4 > | Spatial consistency check was applied | 5 > | Statistical spatial consistency check was applied | 6 > | Temporal consistency check was applied | 7 > | Internal consistency check was applied | 8 > | Position consistency check was applied | 9 > | Validity check was applied | 10 | Master check was applied 0-33-222 | QCR ; FLAG | 1 > | Kalman filter failed | 2 > | Statistical model consistency check failed | 3 > | Forecast model consistency check failed | 4 > | Spatial consistency check failed | 5 > | Statistical spatial consistency check failed | 6 > | Temporal consistency check failed | 7 > | Internal consistency check failed | 8 > | Position consistency check failed | 9 > | Validity check failed | 10 | Master check failed 0-33-223 | QCAU ; FLAG | 1 > | Provider QC check was applied | 2 > | Model consistency check was applied | 3 > | Time-height consistency check was applied | 4 > | Wind shear check was applied | 5 > | Super adiabatic lapse rate check was applied | 7 > | Hydrostatic check was applied | 8 > | Temporal consistency check was applied | 9 > | Internal consistency check was applied | 10 > | Position consistency check was applied | 11 > | Validity check was applied | 12 | Master check was applied 0-33-224 | QCRU ; FLAG | 1 > | Provider QC check failed | 2 > | Model consistency check failed | 3 > | Time-height consistency check failed | 4 > | Wind shear check failed | 5 > | Super adiabatic lapse rate check failed | 7 > | Hydrostatic check failed | 8 > | Temporal consistency check failed | 9 > | Internal consistency check failed | 10 > | Position consistency check failed | 11 > | Validity check failed | 12 | Master check failed 0-33-225 | DINT ; CODE | 0 > | Temperature correction | 1 > | Longitude and wind direction flipped and observation time set to report receipt time | 2 > | Latitude/longitude correction (other than interpolation) | 3 > | No correction applied | 4 | Observation time set to report receipt time 0-33-226 | LINT ; CODE | 0 > | Interpolated | 1 | Reported 0-33-227 | TINT ; CODE | 0 > | Interpolated | 1 | Reported 0-33-229 | QFV2 ; CODE | 0 > | Normal VAD wind | 1 | VAD wind generated by interpolation 0-33-230 | SHRV ; CODE | 0 > | Not revised | 1 | Revised 0-33-231 | SHQL ; CODE | 2 > | Bad - manual QC | 5 > | Estimated | 6 > | Questionable - flagged by sensor or telemetry | 7 > | Good - manual QC | 13 > | Good - manual edit | 16 > | Good - passed by level 1, level 2 and level 3 | 17 > | Questionable - flagged by level 2 and level 3 | 18 > | Bad - rejected by level 1 | 19 > | Good - screened by level 1 | 22 > | Good - verified by level 1 and level 2 | 26 | No QC performed 0-33-232 | PRXF ; CODE | 1 > | Bad - data rejected | 2 > | Suspected bad - data that has any confidence flags 0-5 rejected | 3 > | Unprocessed proximity confidence flag - should be good data | 4 | Good data 0-33-233 | OSQC ; CODE | 0 > | Scan is good | 1 > | Bad calibration data | 2 > | Bad scan (based on level-2A scan summary flag) | 3 | Bad time information 0-33-234 | OPQF ; FLAG | 1 > | Cell contains .2% to 1.4% land | 2 > | Cell contains > 1.4% land | 3 > | Sea ice is possible based on monthly climatology | 4 > | Level-2A brightness temperatures indicate sea ice | 5 > | Level-2A 6.9 GHz brightness temperatures are out of bounds or contain missing data | 6 > | Level-2A 10.7 GHz brightness temperatures are out of bounds or contain missing data | 7 > | Level-2A 18.7 GHz brightness temperatures are out of bounds or contain missing data | 8 > | Level-2A 36.5 GHz brightness temperatures are out of bounds or contain missing data | 9 > | Very low retrieval is out of bounds - do not use | 10 > | Very low retrieval is not complete | 11 > | Low retrieval is out of bounds - do not use | 12 > | Low retrieval is not complete | 13 > | Medium retrieval is out of bounds - do not use | 14 > | Medium retrieval is not complete | 15 > | High retrieval has unusual 19 GHz versus 37 GHz absorption rate - OK to use | 16 > | High retrieval is not complete | 17 > | Rain is in the cell, and the rain threshold is light | 18 > | Rain is within 25 km of the cell, and the rain threshold is light | 19 > | Rain is within 25 km of the cell, and the rain threshold is very light | 20 > | Rain is within 40 km of the cell, and the rain threshold is light | 21 | Rain is within 40 km of the cell, and the rain threshold is very light 0-33-235 | TOQC ; CODE | 0 > | Good sample | 1 > | Glint contamination (corrected) | 2 > | Solar zenith angle > 84 degrees | 3 > | 360 residual > threshold | 4 > | Residual at unused ozone wavelength > 4 sigma | 5 > | SOI > 4 sigma (SO2 present) | 6 > | Non-convergence | 7 | Absolute value of residual > 16.0 (fatal) 0-33-236 | TOQF ; FLAG | 1 > | Warning input irradiance | 2 > | Error input irradiance | 4 > | Warning input radiance | 5 > | Warning input radiance | 6 > | Warning input radiance | 7 > | Solar zenith angle > 88 degrees | 8 > | Geolocation error (anomalous FOV Earth location) | 9 > | Climatological cloud pressure used | 10 | Row anomaly 0-33-237 | QCSS ; CODE | 0 > | Sensor operating/data available | 2 > | Sensor not installed | 3 > | Sensor out of service | 5 > | Sensors output in conflict | 6 > | Invalidated: Auto range check | 7 > | Invalidated: Auto rate of change | 8 > | Invalidated: Auto insufficient count | 9 > | Invalidated: By operator | 10 > | Data source offsite: Link failure | 12 > | Dew point sensor invalidated | 16 | Operator manual data entry 0-33-241 | QHDOP ; CODE | 0 > | All parameters of nominal accuracy | 1 > | Latitude or longitude questionable | 2 > | Geopotential altitude or static pressure questionable | 3 | Both latitude or longitude, and geopotential altitude or static pressure questionable 0-33-242 | QHDOM ; CODE | 0 > | All parameters of nominal accuracy | 1 > | Temperature or dewpoint temperature questionable | 2 > | Flight-level winds questionable | 3 > | SFMR parameter(s) questionable | 4 > | Temperature or dewpoint temperature, and flight-level winds questionable | 5 > | Temperature or dewpoint temperature, and SFMR parameter(s) questionable | 6 > | Flight-level winds and SFMR parameter(s) questionable | 9 | Temperature or dewpoint temperature, flight-level winds, and SFMR parameter(s) questionable 0-33-254 | TPQC2 ; CODE | 0 > | Good | 1 > | Slightly suspect | 2 | Highly suspect 0-33-255 | TPQC ; CODE | 0 | Good 0-35-200 | RSRD ; FLAG | 1 > | No redistribution allowed | 2 > | Can redistribute to any U.S. government agency | 3 > | Can redistribute to any U.S. research group | 4 > | Can redistribute to any U.S. educational institution | 5 | Can redistribute to any U.S. government agency within NOAA 0-50-210 | SLQFS ; FLAG | 1 > | Scan quality flag validity | 2 > | Pass type | 3 > | Scanning type | 4 > | Scan error | 5 > | Datation error | 6 > | PRT error | 7 > | Encoder error | 8 > | MADRAS correction flag | 9 | CRC status 0-50-211 | PLMD ; CODE | 0 > | Nominal mode | 1 > | Fixed mode (investigation only) | 2 > | Hot calibration (investigation only) | 3 > | Cold calibration (investigation only) | 4 | Nadir looking (investigation only) 0-50-213 | SMODE ; CODE | 0 > | Valid data; no flip condition equivalent to forward configuration | 1 > | Invalid data; flip transition | 2 > | Valid data; flipped condition equivalent to backward configuration | 3 > | Invalid data; attitude maneuvers for orbit maintenance | 4 > | Invalid data; attitude maneuvers for payload calibration purpose | 5 > | Invalid data; attitude bias payload operation | 6 > | Invalid data; gyro calibration | 7 | Valid data; MADRAS in fixed 0-50-214 | CHQF ; FLAG | 1 > | Brightness temperature validity | 2 > | Land/sea contamination | 3 > | On/off channel flag | 4 > | Level 0 count error | 5 > | Level 0 hot or cold count error | 6 > | Geolocation estimation | 7 > | Hot count error | 8 > | Cold sky count error | 9 > | Interpolation error | 10 | AGC/AOC loops 0-50-215 | CLFG ; CODE | 0 > | Calibration OK | 1 > | Calibration failure | 2 > | Degraded gain averaging | 3 | Partial calibration 0-51-001 | RRTQM ; CODE | 0-51-002=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-51-002=2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 | Suspect 0-51-002 | RRTPC ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-51-003 | RRTRC ; CODE | 0-51-002=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-51-002=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-51-002=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-51-002=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-51-002=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-51-002=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-51-002=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-51-002=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-51-021 | PWQ ; CODE | 0-51-022=1 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 15 > | Observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-51-022=4 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 8 > | A non-pressure observation failed a limit check | 9 > | Observation error is missing | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 0-51-022=10 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 4 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 0 (keep) is flagged | 5 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 1 (good) is flagged | 6 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 2 (neutral/default) is flagged | 7 > | Observation with pre-existing quality marker 3 (suspect) is flagged | 13 > | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks | 0-51-022=2,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14 | 0 > | Keep (always assimilate) | 1 > | Good | 2 > | Neutral or not checked (default) | 3 > | Suspect | 13 | Non-profiler observation failed one or more checks 0-51-022 | PWP ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-51-023 | PWR ; CODE | 0-51-022=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-51-022=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-51-022=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-51-022=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-51-022=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-51-022=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-51-022=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-51-022=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-51-033 | PW1P ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-51-034 | PW1R ; CODE | 0-51-033=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-51-033=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-51-033=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-51-033=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-51-033=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-51-033=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-51-033=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-51-033=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-51-043 | PW2P ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-51-044 | PW2R ; CODE | 0-51-043=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-51-043=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-51-043=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-51-043=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-51-043=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-51-043=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-51-043=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-51-043=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-51-053 | PW3P ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-51-054 | PW3R ; CODE | 0-51-053=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-51-053=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-51-053=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-51-053=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-51-053=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-51-053=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-51-053=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-51-053=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-51-063 | PW4P ; CODE | 1 > | Initial PREPBUFR processing step "PREPRO" (performed in PREPOBS_PREPDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 2 > | Synthetic tropical cyclone bogus processing step "SYNDATA" (performed in SYNDAT_SYNDATA program, prior to "PREVENT" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 4 > | Pre-quality control step "PREVENT" which adds GFS forecast background and observation error (if present) and performs check of surface pressure | 5 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature complex quality control step "CQCHT" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, prior to "RADCOR" and "VIRTMP" steps) | 6 > | Rawinsonde height/temperature intersonde bias (radiation) correction step "RADCOR" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCBUFR program, after "CQCHT" step but prior to "VIRTMP" step) | 7 > | AIREP, PIREP and AMDAR aircraft quality control step "PREPACQC" (performed in PREOPOBS_PREPACQC program) | 8 > | Virtual temperature/specific humidity processing step "VIRTMP" | 9 > | Wind profiler quality control step "CQCPROF" (performed in PREPOBS_PROFCQC program) | 10 > | Multi-platform OI-quality control step "OIQC" (performed in PREPOBS_OIQCBUFR program) | 11 > | Global (GFS/GDAS/CDAS) SSI analysis step "SSI" (performed in GLOBAL_SSI and CDAS_SSI programs) | 12 > | VAD wind quality control step "CQCVAD" (performed in PREPOBS_CQCVAD program) | 13 > | Regional (ETA/EDAS) 3DVAR analysis step "R3DVAR" (performed in ETA_R3DVAR program) | 14 | ACARS aircraft quality control step "ACARSQC" (performed in PREPOBS_ACARSQC program) 0-51-064 | PW4R ; CODE | 0-51-063=1 | 100 > | Observation and quality marker on report level unchanged from original values read into program PREPDATA | 101 > | Observation on upper-air category 4 (winds-by-height) level created via linear averaging of reported data on spanning levels | 102 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 103 > | Observation on upper-air report level created via hydrostatic integration of reported data on spanning levels | 104 > | Observation on report level created from other types of reported observations on the same level | 105 > | New report pressure level created; pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 106 > | Surface marine report with missing elevation or reported elevation greater than 10,000 meters; height (elevation) observation is assigned the value of 0 m and is considered to be of neutral quality | 107 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to reported surface pressure (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless surface pressure quality is suspect or bad | 108 > | Surface marine ATLAS BUOY report with missing surface pressure; surface pressure observation is assigned the U.S. Standard Atmosphere value of 1013 mb and is considered to be of suspect quality | 109 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of neutral quality unless MSLP quality is suspect or bad | 110 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 111 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to reported MSLP value (if valid) and considered to be of same quality as MSLP observation | 112 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality unless MSLP quality is bad | 113 > | Surface report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and valid MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from reported MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of bad quality because MSLP is outside of D-value range | 114 > | Observation on report level created from other types of observations on the same level; the other observations were created earlier via linear log-P interpolation of reported data on spanning levels | 115 > | Surface marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of same quality | 116 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 117 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude and temperature on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation considered to be of neutral quality | 118 > | Surface land report with missing MSLP and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; MSLP observation set to surface pressure from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 119 > | Surface land report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting and reported elevation greater than 0 m but less than 7.5 m; surface pressure observation set to MSLP from SDM event and considered to be of neutral quality | 120 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and SDM-assigned MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from SDM-assigned MSLP, temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 121 > | Surface land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; surface pressure observation calculated from U.S. Standard Atmosphere MSLP and reported temperature and elevation, and considered to be of suspect quality | 130 > | Report with a pressure observation greater than 1075 mb; pressure observation is considered to be of bad quality | 131 > | Upper-air report category 4 (winds-by-height) level with a calculated height created from a spanning level that did not report height; calculated height observation is considered to be of bad quality | 132 > | Report with a surface pressure or MSLP observation that is outside of D-value range; observation considered to be of bad quality | 133 > | Upper-air report with observations on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level that were created from bad-quality pressure data on a spanning level and are themselves considered to be of bad quality | 134 > | Upper-air report height observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level is considered to be of bad quality | 135 > | Upper-air report wind observation on a category 4 (winds-by-height) level and originally having a "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 138 > | Report that is over land, and data card switches are set to exclude all data of this type over land; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 139 > | GOES satellite retrieval with satellite number/retrieval type combination that is set to be excluded by data card switches; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 140 > | Upper-air report from an Indian radiosonde (WMO block 42 or 43) and data card switches are set to exclude all data; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 141 > | Surface level data from a flight-level reconnaissance report or dropwinsonde report; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 142 > | Surface level data from a GOES sounding; observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 143 > | Upper-air report level with reported pressure greater than reported surface pressure; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 146 > | MSLP bogus report; pressure observation is considered to be of good quality | 147 > | Upper-air report level with either (1) pressure below 400 mb and dewpoint missing or below 215 K, or (2) pressure above highest category 2 (significant temperature) or category 5 (troposphere) level with height or temperature data; temperature observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 148 > | Upper-air report level with calculated virtual temperature greater than 375 K below 100 mb or greater than 325 K above 100 mb; temperature observation is considered to be of bad quality | 149 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath and the pressure on the current level where a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration exceeds the limit; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 150 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is of bad quality; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 151 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the reported height and the calculated height (via hydrostatic integration) on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 152 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is of bad quality; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 154 > | Upper-air report level that is duplicate in pressure with another level; if wind observation was transferred from category 4 (winds-by-height) level onto duplicate level with missing or bad height, then wind observation originally having "keep" flag or good quality marker is downgraded to be of neutral quality | 155 > | Surface report level with reported MSLP that is outside of D-value range; surface pressure observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 156 > | Surface report level with reported surface pressure that is outside of D-value range; MSLP observation that originally was not bad is now also considered to be of bad quality | 157 > | Surface land report that is outside the boundary of the LFM grid domain; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 159 > | ACARS report with pressure altitude less than 7500 feet; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 160 > | Satellite land or Great Lakes marine report with missing surface pressure, missing altimeter setting, reported elevation greater than 7.5 m and missing MSLP; specific humidity observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 162 > | Flight-level reconnaissance report with flight-level pressure calculated from reported altitude on same level and from reported pressure and height on a second level via U.S. Standard Atmosphere lapse rate; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of suspect quality | 163 > | Pressure calculated from reported altitude via U.S. Standard Atmosphere and SDM-assigned height; calculated pressure observation is considered to be of same quality | 164 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 149 or 165; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 165 > | Upper-air report level where the difference between the pressure on the first level beneath with either a reported or calculated height and the pressure on the first level above with a reported height exceeds the limit; level is considered to be of bad quality | 166 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calculated via hydrostatic integration and where one or both spanning levels contains a height from an SDM event; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 167 > | Upper-air report level onto which a height is being calucluated via hydrostatic integration, and one or both of the spanning level heights has an event reason code of 151; calculated height is considered to be of bad quality | 168 > | Report of a type for which data card switches are set to exclude all data of that type; observation is flagged for non-use by analysis | 169 > | Surface report where height (elevation) observation is consdered to have the same quality as that of the pressure observation | 170 > | Upper-air, ACARS, aircraft or surface report where observed or calculated dew point temperature is less than 215 K; dew point and observed or calculated specific humidity observations are considered to be of bad quality | 191 > | NCEP SDM modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 192 > | NCEP Ocean Prediction Center modified the value of the observation; observation is considered to be of good quality | 193 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks and subsequently rejected by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of bad quality | 194 > | Observation was deemed suspect by automatic quality control checks but was subsequently accepted by NCEP SDM; observation is considered to be of good quality | 195 > | Observation is on manual reject list and flagged for non-use by analysis | 196 > | NCEP SDM placed a "keep" flag on the observation; data will be used by the analysis | 197 > | NCEP SDM placed a "purge" flag on the observation; data is flagged for non-use by analysis | 0-51-063=2 | 0 > | Original bogus data created by SYNDATA program | 1 > | Bogus specific humidity observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, based on an assumed relative humidity of 99% | 2 > | Reported surface pressure observation at storm center (from TCVITALS) | 3 > | Bogus surface pressure observation at storm center created by SYNDATA program, and derived from adjusting first guess surface pressure according to Saffir-Simpson storm category | 10 > | Report in the vicinity of a tropical storm; pressure on all levels flagged so report will not be assimilated | 99 > | Dropwinsonde report in the vicinity of a tropical storm (within a radius of the larger of 111 km or three times the radius of the maximum surface wind; wind on all levels flagged so wind will not be assimilated | 0-51-063=5 | 0 > | Temperature was OK and was not corrected | 1 > | Height computation error at an interior mandatory level | 2 > | Temperature computation error at an interior mandatory level | 3 > | Height and temperature computation errors or with residual compensation at the same interior mandatory level | 5 > | Height or temperature computation error (or both) at the top mandatory level | 6 > | Height computation error between any two mandatory levels | 7 > | Height computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 8 > | Temperature computation error between any two adjacent mandatory levels | 9 > | Height computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and temperature computation error at the upper of the two levels | 10 > | Temperature computation error at the lower of two adjacent mandatory levels, and height computation error at the upper of the two levels | 15 > | Auxiliary level in regional-OI version recalculated by CQCHT | 20 > | Significant level temperature was corrected | 21 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 23 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 24 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 25 > | A non-correctable significant level temperature error was found | 30 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 35 > | Temperature observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 36 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 37 > | Height observation error; data is flagged for rejection or use with reduced weight | 100 > | Surface pressure was corrected | 102 > | Surface temperature was corrected | 105 > | A non-correctable surface pressure or temperature error was found | 106 > | Surface pressure observation error | 0-51-063=6 | 1 > | Height or temperature (or both) recalculated | 0-51-063=7 | 1 > | PIREP report converted to AIREP by Tinker AFB; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 2 > | Report between altitude 2000 ft and 5000 ft with temperature that differs from first guess temperature by more than 25 degrees Celsius; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 3 > | Report with non-missing temperature greater than 12 degrees Celsius; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 4 > | Report with calm wind from a direction other than 360 degrees; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 5 > | PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots, or with unknown vector wind increment; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 6 > | Report with a calm wind in a stack of less than seven co-located reports with less than four reports having a calm wind; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 7 > | Mid- or high-level ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report in a track with an unreasonable ground speed and vector wind increment greater than 70 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 8 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 9 > | This one of a pair of AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 10 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to have a type 3 error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 11 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2B duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 12 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 2A duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 13 > | This last of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be in error; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 14 > | This one of several AIREP/PIREP reports in a track is determined to be a type 3 duplicate; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 15 > | Report was used to generate a superob report; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 16 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 17 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment less than 21 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 18 > | Isolated AIREP/PIREP report with vector wind increment greater than 20 knots but less than 51 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 19 > | Report (isolated or stacked) with wind data data that has failed one or more checks and is considered to be of bad quality; temperature data is now also considered to be of bad quality | 20 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 21 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed the wind shear check; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 22 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with temperature data that has failed the lapse check; temperature data considered to be of bad quality | 23 > | Report in a stack of co-located reports with wind data that has failed one or more checks, and report was not used to generate a superob; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 24 > | This one of a pair of co-located reports has a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots and contains a suspected track check error; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 25 > | AIREP/PIREP or superob report over CONUS; temperature and wind data are flagged for non-use by analysis | 26 > | Superob report; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 27 > | In a track containing at least 15 ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR reports, there are at least 10 reports with a vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; wind data considered to be of bad quality | 28 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with temperature and wind data that have passed all checks; temperature and wind data considered to be of good quality | 29 > | AIREP/PIREP report in a stack of only two co-located reports and with vector wind increment greater than 50 knots; temperature and wind data considered to be of bad quality | 30 > | Isolated ASDAR/AMDAR/TAMDAR report with a missing phase-of-flight indicator; temperature and wind data considered to be of suspect quality | 0-51-063=9 | 3 > | Wind observation was found to be of questionable quality | 13 > | Wind observation failed QC checks | 0-51-063=10 | 2 > | SSM/I oceanic wind speed report; performs a multi-variate surface wind analysis and assigns the analyzed wind direction to the wind speed observation, then generates new u- and v-wind components for the wind vector | 4 > | Report originally with a "keep" flag is rejected because it is more than 20 times the expected difference from the interpolated nearby independent information | 5 > | Report originally with a good quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 6 > | Report originally with a neutral quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 7 > | Report originally with a suspect quality mark is rejected by the OIQC checking algorithm | 0-51-063=12 | 1 > | Wind observation on a single level has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 2 > | Wind observations on adjacent levels have speeds greater than or equal to 1 m/s and are unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 3 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s and is unaffected by bird migration but still failed QC checks | 4 > | Wind observation has speed less than 1 m/s | 5 > | Wind observation has speed greater than or equal to 1 m/s but is affected by bird migration | 7 > | The magnitude of the wind increment (either u- or v- component) is greater than 12 m/s | 9 | No first-guess wind information is available 0-55-006 | NMCT ; CODE | 65 > | SSM/I total precipitable water product (ocean) | 66 > | SSM/I rain rate product | 68 > | SSM/I brightness temperatures | 69 > | SSM/I cloud water product (ocean) | 161 > | NESDIS 40-level TOVS clear temperature retrievals over land | 162 > | NESDIS 40-level TOVS N-star (partly cloudy) temperature retrievals over land | 163 > | NESDIS 40-level TOVS microwave (cloudy) temperature retrievals over land | 166 > | NMC interactive TOVS clear temperature retrievals over land | 167 > | NMC interactive TOVS N-star (partly cloudy) temperature retrievals over land | 168 > | NMC interactive TOVS microwave (cloudy) temperature retrievals over land | 171 > | NESDIS 40-level TOVS clear temperature retrievals over ocean | 172 > | NESDIS 40-level TOVS N-star (partly cloudy) temperature retrievals over ocean | 173 > | NESDIS 40-level TOVS microwave (cloudy) temperature retrievals over ocean | 176 > | NMC interactive TOVS clear temperature retrievals over ocean | 177 > | NMC interactive TOVS N-star (partly cloudy) temperature retrievals over ocean | 178 > | NMC interactive TOVS microwave (cloudy) temperature retrievals over ocean | 571 > | SSM/I wind speed product (ocean) | 573 > | SSM/I soil moisture product | 574 > | SSM/I snow depth product | 575 > | SSM/I additional products (surface tag, ice concentration, ice age, ice edge, calculated surface type) | 576 > | SSM/I surface (skin) temperature product | 577 | SSM/I sea surface temperature product 0-55-007 | TYP ; CODE | 0-01-225=2 | 111 > | MASS Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone storm center | 112 > | MASS Report - Pseudo mean sea-level pressure at tropical cyclone storm center | 120 > | MASS Report - Rawinsonde | 122 > | MASS Report - Class sounding | 126 > | MASS Report - RASS temperature profile | 130 > | MASS Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 131 > | MASS Report - AMDAR aircraft | 132 > | MASS Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 133 > | MASS Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 134 > | MASS Report - TAMDAR aircraft | 135 > | MASS Report - Canadian AMDAR aircraft | 150 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) FNMOC rain rate | 151 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 cloud top pressure, temperature and cloud amount | 152 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 precipitable water over ocean | 153 > | MASS Report - GPS integrated precipitable water | 156 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - clear | 157 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - cloudy | 158 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - clear | 159 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - cloudy | 164 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - clear | 165 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - cloudy | 170 > | MASS Report - Nacelle | 171 > | MASS Report - Tall tower | 174 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - clear | 175 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - cloudy | 180 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 181 > | MASS Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 182 > | MASS Report - Splash-level dropsonde over ocean | 183 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with missing station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 187 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 188 > | MASS Report - Surface mesonet | 191 > | MASS Report - Australian PAOB mean sea-level pressure bogus over ocean | 192 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SYNOP) | 193 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure, missing sea-level pressure and missing altimeter setting (METAR) | 194 > | MASS Report - Surface marine or land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN, tide gauge, SYNOP, METAR) | 195 > | MASS Report - Surface mesonet with missing station pressure and missing altimeter setting | 210 > | WIND Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone | 213 > | WIND Report - Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) winds from reconnaisance High-Density Observations (HDOB) | 220 > | WIND Report - Rawinsonde | 221 > | WIND Report - PIBAL | 222 > | WIND Report - Class sounding | 223 > | WIND Report - NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) wind profiler | 224 > | WIND Report - NeXRaD Vertical Azimuth Display (VAD) | 227 > | WIND Report - Multi-agency (MAP) wind profiler | 228 > | WIND Report - Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) wind profiler | 229 > | WIND Report - Wind profiler from PILOT | 230 > | WIND Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 231 > | WIND Report - AMDAR aircraft | 232 > | WIND Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 233 > | WIND Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 234 > | WIND Report - TAMDAR aircraft | 235 > | WIND Report - Canadian AMDAR aircraft | 240 > | WIND Report - NESDIS infrared cloud drift (short wave) | 241 > | WIND Report - India infrared and visible cloud drift | 242 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 243 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 244 > | WIND Report - AVHRR/POES infrared cloud drift | 245 > | WIND Report - NESDIS infrared cloud drift (long wave) | 246 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - cloud top | 247 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - deep layer | 248 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - cloud top | 249 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - deep layer | 250 > | WIND Report - Japan imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 251 > | WIND Report - NESDIS visible cloud drift | 252 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 253 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 254 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 255 > | WIND Report - NESDIS picture triplet cloud drift | 256 > | WIND Report - India imager water vapor | 257 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES infrared cloud drift | 258 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES imager water vapor - cloud top | 259 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES imager water vapor - deep layer | 260 > | WIND Report - VIIRS/POES infrared cloud drift | 270 > | WIND Report - Nacelle | 271 > | WIND Report - Tall tower | 280 > | WIND Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 281 > | WIND Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 282 > | WIND Report - ATLAS BUOY | 283 > | WIND Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 wind speed over ocean | 284 > | WIND Report - Surface marine (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) or surface land (SYNOP, METAR) with missing station pressure | 285 > | WIND Report - Superobed (0.5 degree lat/long) scatterometer winds over ocean (QUIKSCAT) | 286 > | WIND Report - Scatterometer winds over ocean (ERS) | 287 > | WIND Report - Surface land (METAR) with missing station pressure | 288 > | WIND Report - Surface mesonet | 289 > | WIND Report - Superobed (1 degree lat/long) scatterometer winds over ocean (WINDSAT) | 290 > | WIND Report - Non-superobed Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) winds with 50 km resolution | 291 > | WIND Report - Oceansat SCATterometer (OSCAT) winds | 292 > | WIND Report - Surface land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SYNOP) | 293 > | WIND Report - Surface land with missing station pressure, missing sea-level pressure and missing altimeter setting (METAR) | 294 > | WIND Report - Surface marine or land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN, tide gauge, SYNOP, METAR) | 295 > | WIND Report - Surface mesonet with missing station pressure and missing altimeter setting | 296 > | WIND Report - SMOS | 0-01-225=3 | 102 > | MASS Report - SSM/I 7-channel brightness temperatures | 111 > | MASS Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone storm center | 120 > | MASS Report - Rawinsonde | 122 > | MASS Report - Class sounding | 130 > | MASS Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 131 > | MASS Report - AMDAR aircraft | 132 > | MASS Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 133 > | MASS Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 150 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) FNMOC rain rate | 151 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 cloud top pressure, temperature and cloud amount | 152 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 precipitable water over ocean | 156 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - clear | 157 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - cloudy | 158 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - clear | 159 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - cloudy | 161 > | MASS Report - NESDIS ATOVS virtual temperature soundings at 250 km resolution over land - clear | 163 > | MASS Report - NESDIS ATOVS virtual temperature soundings at 250 km resolution over land - cloudy | 164 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - clear | 165 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - cloudy | 171 > | MASS Report - NESDIS ATOVS virtual temperature soundings at 250 km resolution over ocean - clear | 173 > | MASS Report - NESDIS ATOVS virtual temperature soundings at 250 km resolution over ocean - cloudy | 174 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - clear | 175 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - cloudy | 180 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 181 > | MASS Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 182 > | MASS Report - Splash-level dropsonde over ocean | 183 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with missing station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 187 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 190 > | MASS Report - OPC/NOS point mean sea-level pressure bogus over ocean | 191 > | MASS Report - Australian PAOB mean sea-level pressure bogus over ocean | 210 > | WIND Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone storm center | 213 > | WIND Report - Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) winds from reconnaisance High-Density Observations (HDOB) | 220 > | WIND Report - Rawinsonde | 221 > | WIND Report - PIBAL | 222 > | WIND Report - Class sounding | 223 > | WIND Report - NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) wind profiler | 224 > | WIND Report - NeXRaD Vertical Azimuth Display (VAD) | 230 > | WIND Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 231 > | WIND Report - AMDAR aircraft | 232 > | WIND Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 233 > | WIND Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 241 > | WIND Report - India infrared and visible cloud drift | 242 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 243 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 245 > | WIND Report - NESDIS infrared cloud drift (long wave) | 246 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - cloud top | 247 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - deep layer | 248 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - cloud top | 249 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - deep layer | 250 > | WIND Report - Japan imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 251 > | WIND Report - NESDIS visible cloud drift | 252 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 253 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 254 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 255 > | WIND Report - NESDIS picture triplet cloud drift | 256 > | WIND Report - India imager water vapor | 280 > | WIND Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 281 > | WIND Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 282 > | WIND Report - ATLAS BUOY | 283 > | WIND Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 wind speed over ocean | 284 > | WIND Report - Surface marine (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) or surface land (SYNOP, METAR) with missing station pressure | 285 > | WIND Report - Superobed (0.5 degree lat/long) scatterometer winds over ocean (QUIKSCAT) | 286 > | WIND Report - Scatterometer winds over ocean (ERS) | 287 > | WIND Report - Surface land (METAR) with missing station pressure | 0-01-225=4 | 111 > | MASS Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone storm center | 120 > | MASS Report - Rawinsonde | 122 > | MASS Report - Class sounding | 126 > | MASS Report - RASS temperature profile | 130 > | MASS Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 131 > | MASS Report - AMDAR aircraft | 132 > | MASS Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 133 > | MASS Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 134 > | MASS Report - TAMDAR aircraft | 135 > | MASS Report - Canadian AMDAR aircraft | 150 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) FNMOC rain rate | 151 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 cloud top pressure, temperature and cloud amount | 152 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 precipitable water over ocean | 153 > | MASS Report - GPS integrated precipitable water | 156 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - clear | 157 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - cloudy | 158 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - clear | 159 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - cloudy | 164 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - clear | 165 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - cloudy | 170 > | MASS Report - Nacelle | 171 > | MASS Report - Tall tower | 174 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - clear | 175 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - cloudy | 180 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 181 > | MASS Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 182 > | MASS Report - Splash-level dropsonde over ocean | 183 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with missing station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 187 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 188 > | MASS Report - Surface mesonet | 191 > | MASS Report - Australian PAOB mean sea-level pressure bogus over ocean | 192 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SYNOP) | 193 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure, missing sea-level pressure and missing altimeter setting (METAR) | 194 > | MASS Report - Surface marine or land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN, tide gauge, SYNOP, METAR) | 195 > | MASS Report - Surface mesonet with missing station pressure and missing altimeter setting | 210 > | WIND Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone storm center | 213 > | WIND Report - Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) winds from reconnaisance High-Density Observations (HDOB) | 220 > | WIND Report - Rawinsonde | 221 > | WIND Report - PIBAL | 222 > | WIND Report - Class sounding | 223 > | WIND Report - NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) wind profiler | 224 > | WIND Report - NeXRaD Vertical Azimuth Display (VAD) | 227 > | WIND Report - Multi-agency (MAP) wind profiler | 228 > | WIND Report - Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) wind profiler | 229 > | WIND Report - Wind profiler from PILOT | 230 > | WIND Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 231 > | WIND Report - AMDAR aircraft | 232 > | WIND Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 233 > | WIND Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 234 > | WIND Report - TAMDAR aircraft | 235 > | WIND Report - Canadian AMDAR aircraft | 240 > | WIND Report - NESDIS infrared cloud drift (short wave) | 241 > | WIND Report - India infrared and visible cloud drift | 242 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 243 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 244 > | WIND Report - AVHRR/POES infrared cloud drift | 245 > | WIND Report - NESDIS infrared cloud drift (long wave) | 246 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - cloud top | 247 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - deep layer | 248 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - cloud top | 249 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - deep layer | 250 > | WIND Report - Japan imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 251 > | WIND Report - NESDIS visible cloud drift | 252 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 253 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 254 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 255 > | WIND Report - NESDIS picture triplet cloud drift | 256 > | WIND Report - India imager water vapor | 257 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES infrared cloud drift | 258 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES imager water vapor - cloud top | 259 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES imager water vapor - deep layer | 260 > | WIND Report - VIIRS/POES infrared cloud drift | 270 > | WIND Report - Nacelle | 271 > | WIND Report - Tall tower | 280 > | WIND Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 281 > | WIND Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 282 > | WIND Report - ATLAS BUOY | 283 > | WIND Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 wind speed over ocean | 284 > | WIND Report - Surface marine (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) or surface land (SYNOP, METAR) with missing station pressure | 285 > | WIND Report - Superobed (0.5 degree lat/long) scatterometer winds over ocean (QUIKSCAT) | 286 > | WIND Report - Scatterometer winds over ocean (ERS) | 287 > | WIND Report - Surface land (METAR) with missing station pressure | 288 > | WIND Report - Surface mesonet | 289 > | WIND Report - Superobed (1 degree lat/long) scatterometer winds over ocean (WINDSAT) | 290 > | WIND Report - Non-superobed Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) winds with 50 km resolution | 291 > | WIND Report - Oceansat SCATterometer (OSCAT) winds | 292 > | WIND Report - Surface land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SYNOP) | 293 > | WIND Report - Surface land with missing station pressure, missing sea-level pressure and missing altimeter setting (METAR) | 294 > | WIND Report - Surface marine or land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN, tide gauge, SYNOP, METAR) | 295 > | WIND Report - Surface mesonet with missing station pressure and missing altimeter setting | 0-01-225=5 | 111 > | MASS Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone storm center | 120 > | MASS Report - Rawinsonde | 122 > | MASS Report - Class sounding | 126 > | MASS Report - RASS temperature profile | 130 > | MASS Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 131 > | MASS Report - AMDAR aircraft | 132 > | MASS Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 133 > | MASS Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 134 > | MASS Report - TAMDAR aircraft | 135 > | MASS Report - Canadian AMDAR aircraft | 150 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) FNMOC rain rate | 151 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 cloud top pressure, temperature and cloud amount | 152 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 precipitable water over ocean | 153 > | MASS Report - GPS integrated precipitable water | 156 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - clear | 157 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - cloudy | 158 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - clear | 159 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - cloudy | 164 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - clear | 165 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - cloudy | 170 > | MASS Report - Nacelle | 171 > | MASS Report - Tall tower | 174 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - clear | 175 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - cloudy | 180 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 181 > | MASS Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 182 > | MASS Report - Splash-level dropsonde over ocean | 183 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with missing station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 187 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 188 > | MASS Report - Surface mesonet | 191 > | MASS Report - Australian PAOB mean sea-level pressure bogus over ocean | 192 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SYNOP) | 193 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure, missing sea-level pressure and missing altimeter setting (METAR) | 194 > | MASS Report - Surface marine or land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN, tide gauge, SYNOP, METAR) | 195 > | MASS Report - Surface mesonet with missing station pressure and missing altimeter setting | 210 > | WIND Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone storm center | 213 > | WIND Report - Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) winds from reconnaisance High-Density Observations (HDOB) | 220 > | WIND Report - Rawinsonde | 221 > | WIND Report - PIBAL | 222 > | WIND Report - Class sounding | 223 > | WIND Report - NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) wind profiler | 224 > | WIND Report - NeXRaD Vertical Azimuth Display (VAD) | 227 > | WIND Report - Multi-agency (MAP) wind profiler | 228 > | WIND Report - Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) wind profiler | 229 > | WIND Report - Wind profiler from PILOT | 230 > | WIND Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 231 > | WIND Report - AMDAR aircraft | 232 > | WIND Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 233 > | WIND Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 234 > | WIND Report - TAMDAR aircraft | 235 > | WIND Report - Canadian AMDAR aircraft | 240 > | WIND Report - NESDIS infrared cloud drift (short wave) | 241 > | WIND Report - India infrared and visible cloud drift | 242 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 243 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 244 > | WIND Report - AVHRR/POES infrared cloud drift | 245 > | WIND Report - NESDIS infrared cloud drift (long wave) | 246 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - cloud top | 247 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - deep layer | 248 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - cloud top | 249 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - deep layer | 250 > | WIND Report - Japan imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 251 > | WIND Report - NESDIS visible cloud drift | 252 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 253 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 254 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 255 > | WIND Report - NESDIS picture triplet cloud drift | 256 > | WIND Report - India imager water vapor | 257 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES infrared cloud drift | 258 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES imager water vapor - cloud top | 259 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES imager water vapor - deep layer | 260 > | WIND Report - VIIRS/POES infrared cloud drift | 270 > | WIND Report - Nacelle | 271 > | WIND Report - Tall tower | 280 > | WIND Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 281 > | WIND Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 282 > | WIND Report - ATLAS BUOY | 283 > | WIND Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 wind speed over ocean | 284 > | WIND Report - Surface marine (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) or surface land (SYNOP, METAR) with missing station pressure | 285 > | WIND Report - Superobed (0.5 degree lat/long) scatterometer winds over ocean (QUIKSCAT) | 286 > | WIND Report - Scatterometer winds over ocean (ERS) | 287 > | WIND Report - Surface land (METAR) with missing station pressure | 288 > | WIND Report - Surface mesonet | 289 > | WIND Report - Superobed (1 degree lat/long) scatterometer winds over ocean (WINDSAT) | 290 > | WIND Report - Non-superobed Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) winds with 50 km resolution | 291 > | WIND Report - Oceansat SCATterometer (OSCAT) winds | 292 > | WIND Report - Surface land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SYNOP) | 293 > | WIND Report - Surface land with missing station pressure, missing sea-level pressure and missing altimeter setting (METAR) | 294 > | WIND Report - Surface marine or land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN, tide gauge, SYNOP, METAR) | 295 > | WIND Report - Surface mesonet with missing station pressure and missing altimeter setting | 0-01-225=19 | 111 > | MASS Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone storm center | 120 > | MASS Report - Rawinsonde | 122 > | MASS Report - Class sounding | 126 > | MASS Report - RASS temperature profile | 130 > | MASS Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 131 > | MASS Report - AMDAR aircraft | 132 > | MASS Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 133 > | MASS Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 134 > | MASS Report - TAMDAR aircraft | 135 > | MASS Report - Canadian AMDAR aircraft | 150 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) FNMOC rain rate | 151 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 cloud top pressure, temperature and cloud amount | 152 > | MASS Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 precipitable water over ocean | 153 > | MASS Report - GPS integrated precipitable water | 154 > | MASS Report - GOES imager sky cover | 156 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - clear | 157 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over land - cloudy | 158 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - clear | 159 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view 4-layer precipitable water over ocean - cloudy | 164 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - clear | 165 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over land - cloudy | 170 > | MASS Report - Nacelle | 171 > | MASS Report - Tall tower | 174 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - clear | 175 > | MASS Report - NESDIS 1x1 field-of-view radiances water over ocean - cloudy | 180 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 181 > | MASS Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 182 > | MASS Report - Splash-level dropsonde over ocean | 183 > | MASS Report - Surface marine with missing station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 187 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 188 > | MASS Report - Surface mesonet | 191 > | MASS Report - Australian PAOB mean sea-level pressure bogus over ocean | 192 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SYNOP) | 193 > | MASS Report - Surface land with missing station pressure, missing sea-level pressure and missing altimeter setting (METAR) | 194 > | MASS Report - Surface marine or land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN, tide gauge, SYNOP, METAR) | 195 > | MASS Report - Surface mesonet with missing station pressure and missing altimeter setting | 196 > | MASS Report - Surface report is moved from over land to over water, to align properly with RTMA land/sea mask in Great Lakes region | 197 > | MASS Report - Pseudo-surface report generated over water, based on existing surface report over land in Great Lakes region | 198 > | MASS Report - Surface report is moved from over water to over land, to align properly with RTMA land/sea mask in Great Lakes region | 199 > | MASS Report - Pseudo-surface report generated over land, based on existing surface report over water in Great Lakes region | 210 > | WIND Report - Synthetic (bogus) tropical cyclone storm center | 213 > | WIND Report - Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) winds from reconnaisance High-Density Observations (HDOB) | 220 > | WIND Report - Rawinsonde | 221 > | WIND Report - PIBAL | 222 > | WIND Report - Class sounding | 223 > | WIND Report - NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) wind profiler | 224 > | WIND Report - NeXRaD Vertical Azimuth Display (VAD) | 227 > | WIND Report - Multi-agency (MAP) wind profiler | 228 > | WIND Report - Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) wind profiler | 229 > | WIND Report - Wind profiler from PILOT | 230 > | WIND Report - AIREP or PIREP aircraft | 231 > | WIND Report - AMDAR aircraft | 232 > | WIND Report - Flight-level reconnaissance and profile dropsonde | 233 > | WIND Report - MDCRS ACARS aircraft | 234 > | WIND Report - TAMDAR aircraft | 235 > | WIND Report - Canadian AMDAR aircraft | 240 > | WIND Report - NESDIS infrared cloud drift (short wave) | 241 > | WIND Report - India infrared and visible cloud drift | 242 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 243 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels below 850 mb | 244 > | WIND Report - AVHRR/POES infrared cloud drift | 245 > | WIND Report - NESDIS infrared cloud drift (long wave) | 246 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - cloud top | 247 > | WIND Report - NESDIS imager water vapor - deep layer | 248 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - cloud top | 249 > | WIND Report - NESDIS sounder water vapor - deep layer | 250 > | WIND Report - Japan imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 251 > | WIND Report - NESDIS visible cloud drift | 252 > | WIND Report - Japan infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 253 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT infrared and visible cloud drift at levels above 850 mb | 254 > | WIND Report - EUMETSAT imager water vapor, cloud top and deep layer | 255 > | WIND Report - NESDIS picture triplet cloud drift | 256 > | WIND Report - India imager water vapor | 257 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES infrared cloud drift | 258 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES imager water vapor - cloud top | 259 > | WIND Report - MODIS/POES imager water vapor - deep layer | 260 > | WIND Report - VIIRS/POES infrared cloud drift | 270 > | WIND Report - Nacelle | 271 > | WIND Report - Tall tower | 280 > | WIND Report - Surface marine with reported station pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) | 281 > | WIND Report - Surface land with reported station pressure (SYNOP, METAR) | 282 > | WIND Report - ATLAS BUOY | 283 > | WIND Report - SSM/I superobed (1 degree lat/long) Neural net-3 wind speed over ocean | 284 > | WIND Report - Surface marine (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN or tide gauge) or surface land (SYNOP, METAR) with missing station pressure | 285 > | WIND Report - Superobed (0.5 degree lat/long) scatterometer winds over ocean (QUIKSCAT) | 286 > | WIND Report - Scatterometer winds over ocean (ERS) | 287 > | WIND Report - Surface land (METAR) with missing station pressure | 288 > | WIND Report - Surface mesonet | 289 > | WIND Report - Superobed (1 degree lat/long) scatterometer winds over ocean (WINDSAT) | 290 > | WIND Report - Non-superobed Advanced SCATterometer (ASCAT) winds with 50 km resolution | 291 > | WIND Report - Oceansat SCATterometer (OSCAT) winds | 292 > | WIND Report - Surface land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SYNOP) | 293 > | WIND Report - Surface land with missing station pressure, missing sea-level pressure and missing altimeter setting (METAR) | 294 > | WIND Report - Surface marine or land with missing station pressure and missing sea-level pressure (SHIP, BUOY, C-MAN, tide gauge, SYNOP, METAR) | 295 > | WIND Report - Surface mesonet with missing station pressure and missing altimeter setting | 296 > | WIND Report - Surface report is moved from over land to over water, to align properly with RTMA land/sea mask in Great Lakes region | 297 > | WIND Report - Pseudo-surface report generated over water, based on existing surface report over land in Great Lakes region | 298 > | WIND Report - Surface report is moved from over water to over land, to align properly with RTMA land/sea mask in Great Lakes region | 299 | WIND Report - Pseudo-surface report generated over land, based on existing surface report over water in Great Lakes region 0-55-008 | T29 ; CODE | 11 > | Fixed land RAOB and PIBAL by block and station number | 12 > | Fixed land RAOB and PIBAL by call letters | 13 > | Mobile land RAOB, including CLAS soundings | 22 > | Ship RAOB with name | 23 > | Ship RAOB without name (report id set to "SHIP") | 31 > | Reconnaissance aircraft or dropwinsonde | 41 > | Aircraft flight-level (all types) | 61 > | Satellite soundings/retrievals/radiances | 63 > | Satellite derived winds | 65 > | SSM/I total precipitable water (ocean) product | 66 > | SSM/I rain rate product | 68 > | SSM/I brightness temperatures | 69 > | SSM/I cloud water (ocean) product | 71 > | NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Profiler winds | 72 > | NEXRAD Vertical Azimuth Display (VAD) winds | 73 > | Wind profiler originating in PIBAL bulletins (tropical and European) | 74 > | GPS-IPW (Integrated Precipitable Water) | 75 > | Multi-Agency Profiler (MAP) Profiler winds | 76 > | Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) profiler winds | 77 > | NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) or Multi-Agency Profiler (MAP) RASS temperatures | 511 > | Land surface by block and station number (synoptic, both unrestricted and restricted WMO Resolution 40) | 512 > | Land surface by call letters (METAR) | 514 > | Mobile land surface (synoptic) | 522 > | Ship with name (TAC) | 523 > | Ship without name (report ID set to "SHIP") (TAC) | 524 > | Ship with name (BUFR) | 525 > | Ship without name (report ID set to "SHIP") (BUFR) | 530 > | C-MAN platform (BUFR) | 531 > | C-MAN platform (TAC) | 532 > | Tide gauge report | 534 > | Coast Guard tide gauge report | 540 > | Mesonet surface | 551 > | Sea-level pressure bogus | 561 > | Fixed buoy arriving in WMO TAC FM-13 format | 562 > | Fixed or drifting buoy arriving in WMO TAC FM-18 format | 563 > | Fixed buoy arriving in WMO BUFR format | 564 > | Drifting buoy arriving in WMO BUFR format | 571 > | SSM/I wind speed (ocean) product | 573 > | SSM/I soil moisture product | 574 > | SSM/I snow depth product | 575 > | SSM/I additional products (surface tag, ice concentration, ice age, ice edge, calculated surface type) | 576 > | SSM/I surface (skin) temperature product | 577 > | SSM/I sea surface temperature product | 581 > | ERS scatterometer winds | 582 > | QuikSCAT scatterometer winds | 583 > | WindSAT scatterometer winds (Navy- or NESDIS- produced) | 584 | ASCAT scatterometer winds 0-55-009 | TSB ; CODE | 0-55-007=130,230 | 0 > | Report originated from WMO bulletin | 1 > | Report originated from AFWA | 0-55-007=132,232 | 1 > | Reconnaissance report | 2 > | Dropwinsonde report | 0-55-007=131,135,231,235 | 0 > | Aircraft is not banking | 2 | Aircraft is banking 0-55-020 | TABLAT ; CODE | 0 > | Surface data - land | 1 > | Surface data - sea | 2 > | Vertical soundings (other than satellite) | 3 > | Vertical soundings (satellite) | 4 > | Single level upper-air data (other than satellite) | 5 > | Single level upper-air data (satellite) | 6 > | Radar data | 7 > | Synoptic features | 8 > | Physical/chemical constituents | 9 > | Dispersal and transport | 10 > | Radiological data | 11 > | BUFR tables, complete replacement or update | 12 > | Surface data (satellite) | 13 > | Forecasts | 14 > | Warnings | 20 > | Status information | 21 > | Radiances (satellite) | 22 > | Radar (satellite) but not altimeter nor scatterometer | 23 > | Lidar (satellite) | 24 > | Scatterometry (satellite) | 25 > | Altimetry (satellite) | 26 > | Spectrometry (satellite) | 27 > | Gravity measurement (satellite) | 28 > | Precision orbit (satellite) | 29 > | Space environment (satellite) | 30 > | Calibration dataset (satellite) | 31 > | Oceanographic data | 32 > | Lidar (ground-based) | 101 > | Image data | 255 | Other category 0-55-021 | TABLASS ; CODE | 0-55-020=0 | 0 > | Hourly synoptic observations from fixed-land stations (SYNOP) | 1 > | Intermediate synoptic observations from fixed-land stations (SYNOP) | 2 > | Main synoptic observations from fixed-land stations (SYNOP) | 3 > | Hourly synoptic observations from mobile-land stations (SYNOP MOBIL) | 4 > | Intermediate synoptic observations from mobile-land stations (SYNOP MOBIL) | 5 > | Main synoptic observations from mobile land stations (SYNOP MOBIL) | 6 > | One-hour observations from automated stations | 7 > | n-minute observations from AWS stations | 8 > | Radiation observations from one-hour period | 9 > | Radiation observations from n-minute period | 10 > | Routine aeronautical observations (METAR) | 11 > | Special aeronautical observations (SPECI) | 14 > | Ground-based GPS humidity observations (GPSIWV) | 20 > | Climatological observations (CLIMAT) | 21 > | Climatological observations (monthly reports of daily climate data) | 30 > | Sferics locations | 40 > | Hydrologic reports | 50 > | Hourly synoptic observations with supplementary one-hour data | 51 > | Intermediate synoptic observations with supplementary one-hour data | 52 > | Main synoptic observations with supplementary one-hour data | 0-55-020=1 | 0 > | Synoptic observations (SHIP) | 6 > | One-hour observations from automated stations | 7 > | n-minute observations from AWS stations | 15 > | Uncrewed surface vehicle | 20 > | Climatological observations (CLIMAT SHIP) | 25 > | Buoy observation (BUOY) | 30 > | Tide gauge | 31 > | Observed water level time series | 0-55-020=2 | 1 > | Upper-wind reports from fixed-land stations (PILOT) | 2 > | Upper-wind reports from ships (PILOT SHIP) | 3 > | Upper-wind reports from mobile-land stations (PILOT MOBIL) | 4 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from fixed-land stations (TEMP) | 5 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from ships (TEMP SHIP) | 6 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind report from mobile-land stations (TEMP MOBIL) | 7 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from dropwinsondes (TEMP DROP) | 10 > | Wind profiler reports | 11 > | RASS temperature profiles | 14 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from descent radiosondes originally launched from fixed land stations | 15 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from descent radiosondes originally launched from ships | 16 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from descent radiosondes originally launched from mobile land stations | 20 > | ASDAR/ACARS profiles (AMDAR) | 21 > | Profiles of atmospheric constituents concentrations | 25 > | Climatological observations from fixed-land stations (CLIMAT TEMP) | 26 > | Climatological observations from ships (CLIMAT TEMP SHIP) | 0-55-020=3 | 0 > | Temperature (SATEM) | 1 > | TIROS (TOVS) | 2 > | ATOVS | 3 > | AMSU-A | 4 > | AMSU-B | 5 > | HIRS | 6 > | MHS | 7 > | IASI | 8 > | VASS (Vertical atmospheric sounding system) | 20 > | IR temperature/humidity sounding | 30 > | Hyperspectral temperature/humidity sounding | 40 > | MW temperature/humidity sounding | 50 > | Radio occultation sounding | 0-55-020=4 | 0 > | ASDAR/ACARS (AMDAR) | 1 > | Manual (AIREP,PIREP) | 2 > | Mode-S | 0-55-020=5 | 0 > | Cloud wind data (SATOB) | 1 > | Cloud properties | 0-55-020=6 | 0 > | Reflectivity data | 1 > | Doppler wind profiles | 2 > | Derived products | 3 > | Ground radar weather (RADOB) | 0-55-020=7 | 0 > | Forecast Tropical cyclone tracks from EPS | 1 > | Squall Line | 2 > | Forecast tropical cyclone from deterministic system | 0-55-020=8 | 0 > | Surface ozone | 1 > | Ozone vertical sounding | 2 > | Total ozone | 3 > | Acid rain | 4 > | Aerosol | 0-55-020=9 | 0 > | Trajectories, analysis or forecast | 0-55-020=10 | 1 > | Observation (RADREP) | 2 > | Forecast (RADOF) | 0-55-020=12 | 0 > | ERS-uwa | 1 > | ERS-uwi | 2 > | ERS-ura | 3 > | ERS-uat | 4 > | SSM/I radiometer | 5 > | Quickscat | 6 > | Surface temp./radiation (SATOB) | 7 > | ASCAT data | 8 > | Soil moisture | 9 > | Normalised differential vegetation index (NDVI) | 10 > | Normalised radar backscatter | 11 > | Surface emissivity | 12 > | Sea surface temperature | 13 > | Precipitation | 0-55-020=21 | 0 > | Earth radiation budget | 5 > | Cross-track Infrared Sounder | 6 > | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder | 7 > | Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite | 0-55-020=22 | 0 > | Cloud and precipitation radar | 1 > | Synthetic Aperture Radar | 0-55-020=23 | 0 > | Lidar based missions (for wind, for cloud/aerosol, for water vapour, for altimetry) | 0-55-020=24 | 0 > | Wind scatterometry | 0-55-020=25 | 0 > | Radar altimetry | 0-55-020=26 | 0 > | Cross nadir shortwave spectrometry (for chemistry) | 1 > | Cross nadir IR spectrometry (for chemistry) | 2 > | Limb sounding shortwave spectrometry | 3 > | Limb sounding IR spectrometry | 4 > | Limb sounding sub-millimetre wave spectrometry | 0-55-020=30 | 0 > | Subsetted data | 1 > | Collocated data | 2 > | On-board calibration data | 3 > | Bias monitoring | 4 > | Near real-time correction | 5 > | Re-analysis correction | 0-55-020=31 | 0 > | Surface observation | 1 > | Surface observation along track (TRACKOB) | 2 > | Spectral wave observation (WAVEOB) | 3 > | Bathythermal observation (BATHY) | 4 > | Sub-surface floats (profile) | 5 > | XBT/XCTD profiles (TESAC) | 6 > | Waves reports | 7 > | Tsunameter data | 8 > | Glider data | 0-55-020=101 | 0 > | Multi-purpose VIS/IR imagery | 1 > | Conical scanning MW imagery (intermediate frequencies) | 2 > | Low frequency MW imagery | 3 > | Ocean colour imagery | 4 > | Imagery with special viewing geometry | 5 > | Lightning imagery | 6 > | High resolution shortwave imagery for land observation | 7 > | SMOS data | 0-55-020=32 | 0 | Wind, cloud, aerosol 0-55-022 | TABLASL ; CODE | 0-55-020=0 | 0 > | Synoptic land - restricted (WMO Resolution 40) | 1 > | Synoptic land - fixed | 2 > | Synoptic land - mobil | 7 > | Aviation - METAR/SPECI | 8 > | NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) and Multi-Agency Profiler (MAP) surface data | 10 > | SHEF products - not included within any other subtype | 11 > | SHEF products - AFOS (precipitation) | 12 > | Supplementary climatological data | 15 > | Snow cover, depth/density, and water equivalent | 20 > | Wind energy Nacelle - restricted | 100 > | Synoptic land - restricted (WMO Resolution 40) (BUFR) | 101 > | Synoptic land - fixed (BUFR) | 102 > | Synoptic land - mobil (BUFR) | 0-55-020=1 | 1 > | Surface marine ship - restricted | 2 > | Surface marine buoy (FM 18) | 3 > | Surface marine buoy (FM 13) | 4 > | Surface marine CMAN | 5 > | Surface tide gauge (CREX) | 6 > | Mean sea level pressure bogus | 7 > | Surface marine Coast Guard | 8 > | Surface tide gauge (CMAN) | 9 > | USGS river/stream | 10 > | Surface marine CMAN (SHEF) | 11 > | Surface marine buoy (SHEF) | 12 > | Surface tide gauge (SHEF) | 13 > | Surface marine ship | 14 > | RVF river forecast | 21 > | Canadian water level | 22 > | Canadian river gauge | 101 > | Surface marine ship - restricted (BUFR) | 102 > | Surface marine drifting buoy (BUFR) | 103 > | Surface marine moored buoy (BUFR) | 104 > | Surface marine CMAN (BUFR) | 113 > | Surface marine ship (BUFR) | 120 > | Surface marine saildrone (BUFR) | 0-55-020=2 | 1 > | Rawinsonde - fixed land | 2 > | Rawinsonde - mobil land | 3 > | Rawinsonde - ship | 4 > | Dropwinsonde | 5 > | PIBAL | 7 > | NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) winds | 8 > | NeXRaD Velocity Azimuth Display (VAD) winds (Radar Coded Message) | 9 > | Profiler winds (PIBAL) | 10 > | NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) and Multi-Agency Profiler (MAP) spectral moments | 11 > | Multi-Agency Profiler (MAP) winds | 12 > | NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) and Multi-Agency Profiler (MAP) RASS temperatures | 13 > | Japan profiler winds | 14 > | Other profiler winds | 16 > | Europe profiler winds | 17 > | NeXRaD Velocity Azimuth Display (VAD) winds (Level 2) | 18 > | Other Velocity Azimuth Display (VAD) winds (BUFR) | 20 > | Wind energy tower - restricted | 21 > | Wind energy tower | 101 > | Rawinsonde - fixed land (BUFR) | 102 > | Rawinsonde - mobil land (BUFR) | 103 > | Rawinsonde - ship (BUFR) | 104 > | Dropwinsonde (BUFR) | 105 > | PIBAL (BUFR) | 0-55-020=3 | 1 > | GOES 5x5 FOV cloud and sounder radiances | 2 > | GOES 1x1 FOV cloud | 3 > | GOES 1x1 FOV sounder radiances | 10 > | Radio occultation | 101 > | Polar orbiting - TOVS | 102 > | Polar orbiting - RTOVS | 104 > | Polar orbiting - ATOVS | 0-55-020=4 | 1 > | AIREP | 2 > | PIREP | 3 > | ASDAR/ACARS (AMDAR) | 4 > | U.S. ASDAR/ACARS (ARINC to NCEP) | 5 > | Flight level reconnaisance (RECCO) | 6 > | Europe ASDAR/ACARS | 7 > | U.S. ASDAR/ACARS (ARINC to AFWA to NCEP) | 8 > | TAMDAR (MADIS Mesaba) | 9 > | Canada ASDAR/ACARS | 10 > | TAMDAR (BUFR) | 11 > | Korea ASDAR/ACARS | 12 > | TAMDAR (MADIS PenAir) | 13 > | TAMDAR (MADIS Chautauqua) | 14 > | France ASDAR/ACARS | 15 > | Flight level reconnaisance (High Density Observations) | 16 > | Mode-S ASDAR/ACARS | 103 > | ASDAR/ACARS (BUFR) | 0-55-020=5 | 1 > | GOES low-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (NESDIS binary format) | 2 > | GOES low-density winds - visible (NESDIS binary format) | 3 > | GOES low-density winds - water vapor imager (NESDIS binary format) | 4 > | GOES low-density winds - picture triplet (NESDIS binary format) | 5 > | GOES high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (NESDIS binary format) | 6 > | GOES high-density winds - water vapor imager (NESDIS binary format) | 8 > | GOES high-density winds - visible (NESDIS binary format) | 9 > | GOES high-density winds - picture triplet (NESDIS binary format) | 10 > | GOES high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 11 > | GOES high-density winds - water vapor imager (BUFR) | 12 > | GOES high-density winds - visible (BUFR) | 13 > | GOES high-density winds - picture triplet (BUFR) | 14 > | GOES high-density winds - water vapor sounder (BUFR) | 15 > | GOES high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR via GTS) | 16 > | GOES high-density winds - water vapor imager (BUFR via GTS) | 17 > | GOES high-density winds - visible (BUFR via GTS) | 18 > | GOES high-density winds - water vapor sounder (BUFR via GTS) | 19 > | GOES high-density winds - infrared (short-wave) (BUFR) | 20 > | NESDIS GOES Satellite Cloud Product (SCP) | 21 > | India low-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (SATOB) | 22 > | India low-density winds - visible (SATOB) | 23 > | India low-density winds - water vapor imager (SATOB) | 24 > | India high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 25 > | India high-density winds - visible (BUFR) | 26 > | India high-density winds - water vapor imager (BUFR) | 41 > | Japan low-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (SATOB) | 42 > | Japan low-density winds - visible (SATOB) | 43 > | Japan low-density winds - water vapor imager (SATOB) | 44 > | Japan high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 45 > | Japan high-density winds - visible (BUFR) | 46 > | Japan high-density winds - water vapor imager (BUFR) | 47 > | Japan high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 48 > | Japan high-density winds - visible (BUFR) | 49 > | Japan high-density winds - water vapor imager (BUFR) | 50 > | GMS high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 51 > | GMS high-density winds - water vapor imager (BUFR) | 52 > | GOES high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 53 > | GOES high-density winds - water vapor imager deep-layer (BUFR) | 54 > | GOES high-density winds - visible (BUFR) | 55 > | GOES high-density winds - water vapor imager cloud-top (BUFR) | 56 > | GOES high-density winds - infrared (short-wave) (BUFR) | 61 > | Europe low-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (SATOB) | 62 > | Europe low-density winds - visible (SATOB) | 63 > | Europe low-density winds - water vapor imager (SATOB) | 64 > | Europe high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 65 > | Europe high-density winds - visible (BUFR) | 66 > | Europe high-density winds - water vapor imager (BUFR) | 67 > | Europe high-density winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 68 > | Europe high-density winds - visible (BUFR) | 69 > | Europe high-density winds - water vapor imager (BUFR) | 70 > | MODIS AQUA/TERRA winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 71 > | MODIS AQUA/TERRA winds - water vapor imager (BUFR) | 72 > | SSEC/WISC LEO-GEO winds | 80 > | METOP AVHRR winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 81 > | METOP AVHRR winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 90 > | NPP VIIRS winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 91 > | NPP VIIRS winds - infrared (long-wave) (BUFR) | 99 > | CIMSS tropical cyclone winds | 0-55-020=6 | 1 > | NeXRaD level 3 radial wind superob | 2 > | NeXRaD level 2.5 radial wind superob | 10 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (00z) | 11 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (01z) | 12 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (02z) | 13 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (03z) | 14 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (04z) | 15 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (05z) | 16 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (06z) | 17 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (07z) | 18 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (08z) | 19 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (09z) | 20 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (10z) | 21 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (11z) | 22 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (12z) | 23 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (13z) | 24 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (14z) | 25 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (15z) | 26 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (16z) | 27 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (17z) | 28 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (18z) | 29 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (19z) | 30 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (20z) | 31 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (21z) | 32 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (22z) | 33 > | NeXRaD level 2 radial wind (23z) | 40 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (00z) | 41 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (01z) | 42 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (02z) | 43 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (03z) | 44 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (04z) | 45 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (05z) | 46 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (06z) | 47 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (07z) | 48 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (08z) | 49 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (09z) | 50 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (10z) | 51 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (11z) | 52 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (12z) | 53 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (13z) | 54 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (14z) | 55 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (15z) | 56 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (16z) | 57 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (17z) | 58 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (18z) | 59 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (19z) | 60 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (20z) | 61 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (21z) | 62 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (22z) | 63 > | NeXRaD level 2 reflectivity (23z) | 70 > | Aircraft tail doppler radial wind | 80 > | Canada reflectivity (00z) | 81 > | Canada reflectivity (01z) | 82 > | Canada reflectivity (02z) | 83 > | Canada reflectivity (03z) | 84 > | Canada reflectivity (04z) | 85 > | Canada reflectivity (05z) | 86 > | Canada reflectivity (06z) | 87 > | Canada reflectivity (07z) | 88 > | Canada reflectivity (08z) | 89 > | Canada reflectivity (09z) | 90 > | Canada reflectivity (10z) | 91 > | Canada reflectivity (11z) | 92 > | Canada reflectivity (12z) | 93 > | Canada reflectivity (13z) | 94 > | Canada reflectivity (14z) | 95 > | Canada reflectivity (15z) | 96 > | Canada reflectivity (16z) | 97 > | Canada reflectivity (17z) | 98 > | Canada reflectivity (18z) | 99 > | Canada reflectivity (19z) | 100 > | Canada reflectivity (20z) | 101 > | Canada reflectivity (21z) | 102 > | Canada reflectivity (22z) | 103 > | Canada reflectivity (23z) | 110 > | Canada radial wind (00z) | 111 > | Canada radial wind (01z) | 112 > | Canada radial wind (02z) | 113 > | Canada radial wind (03z) | 114 > | Canada radial wind (04z) | 115 > | Canada radial wind (05z) | 116 > | Canada radial wind (06z) | 117 > | Canada radial wind (07z) | 118 > | Canada radial wind (08z) | 119 > | Canada radial wind (09z) | 120 > | Canada radial wind (10z) | 121 > | Canada radial wind (11z) | 122 > | Canada radial wind (12z) | 123 > | Canada radial wind (13z) | 124 > | Canada radial wind (14z) | 125 > | Canada radial wind (l5z) | 126 > | Canada radial wind (16z) | 127 > | Canada radial wind (17z) | 128 > | Canada radial wind (18z) | 129 > | Canada radial wind (19z) | 130 > | Canada radial wind (20z) | 131 > | Canada radial wind (21z) | 132 > | Canada radial wind (22z) | 133 > | Canada radial wind (23z) | 0-55-020=7 | 0 > | Tropical storm | 1 > | Vaisala lightning (NLDN short-range) | 2 > | Vaisala lightning (LLDN long-range) | 3 > | Earth Networks lightning | 21 > | NeXRaD level 2 boundary layer heights | 0-55-020=8 | 10 > | ATOVS SBUV-2 ozone | 11 > | ATOVS SBUV-2 ozone | 12 > | Global ozone monitoring experiment (GOME) | 13 > | Aura ozone monitoring instrument (OMI) | 14 > | NPP OMPS ozone - nadir profile | 15 > | Aura ozone microwave limb sounder (MLS) | 16 > | NPP OMPS ozone - total column | 17 > | NPP OMPS ozone - nadir profile | 18 > | NPP OMPS ozone - total column | 19 > | NPP OMPS ozone - limb profile | 20 > | AIRNOW ozone - 1-hr backward averaged, daily ingest | 21 > | AIRNOW ozone - 1-hr backward averaged, daily ingest | 22 > | AIRNOW ozone - 8-hr backward averaged, daily ingest | 23 > | AIRNOW ozone - 1-hr backward averaged, hourly ingest | 31 > | AIRNOW particulate matter - 1-hr backward averaged, daily ingest | 32 > | AIRNOW particulate matter - 1-hr backward averaged, hourly ingest | 41 > | MODIS aerosol optical depth | 42 > | NPP aerosol optical depth | 45 > | AERONET aerosol optical depths and thicknesses | 0-55-020=12 | 1 > | DMSP SSM/I brightness temperatures | 2 > | DMSP SSM/I derived products | 3 > | GPS integrated precipitable water | 4 > | GNSS ground-based | 5 > | ERS SAR | 8 > | ERS scatterometer | 9 > | ERS radar altimeter | 10 > | NAVOCEANO POES - low-resolution sea-surface temperatures | 11 > | NESDIS POES - high-resolution sea-surface temperatures, brightness temperatures and albedo | 12 > | NAVOCEANO POES - high-resolution sea-surface temperatures, brightness temperatures and albedo | 13 > | NASA TRMM microwave imager | 17 > | NAVOCEANO POES - sea-surface temperatures | 18 > | NESDIS POES - sea-surface temperatures | 22 > | NESDIS GOES - sea-surface temperatures | 23 > | S-NPP/NOAA-20 VIIRS - sea-surface temperatures (clear sky without land) | 24 > | S-NPP/NOAA-20 VIIRS - sea-surface temperatures (probably clear sky without land) | 25 > | S-NPP/NOAA-20 VIIRS - sea-surface temperatures (everything but clear sky without land and probably clear sky without land) | 31 > | AQUA AMSR-E ocean surface products - level 2 | 34 > | AQUA AMSR-E ocean surface products - MISST | 103 > | DMSP SSM/I neural net 3 products | 122 > | METOP 50-km ASCAT scatterometer | 123 > | METOP 25-km ASCAT scatterometer | 137 > | Quickscat scatterometer | 138 > | WindSat scatterometer (FNMOC) | 139 > | WindSat scatterometer (NESDIS) | 150 > | NASA Langley - GOES 1x1 FOV cloud | 160 > | University of Wisconsin GOES imager-effective cloud | 222 > | GCOM-W/Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) sea surface temperatures | 255 > | OCEANSAT 50-km OSCAT scatterometer | 0-55-020=21 | 21 > | NOAA RTOVS brightness temperatures - HIRS-2 | 22 > | NOAA RTOVS brightness temperatures - MSU | 23 > | NOAA ATOVS brightness temperatures - AMSU-A | 24 > | NOAA ATOVS brightness temperatures - AMSU-B | 25 > | NOAA ATOVS brightness temperatures - HIRS-3 | 27 > | NOAA ATOVS brightness temperatures - MHS | 28 > | NOAA ATOVS brightness temperatures - MHS | 33 > | RARS ATOVS brightness temperatures - AMSU-A | 34 > | RARS ATOVS brightness temperatures - AMSU-B | 35 > | RARS ATOVS brightness temperatures - HIRS-3 | 36 > | RARS ATOVS brightness temperatures - MHS | 37 > | RARS ATOVS radiances - CrIS | 38 > | RARS ATOVS brightness temperatures - ATMS | 39 > | RARS ATOVS radiances - IASI | 41 > | NESDIS GOES imager brightness temperatures | 42 > | SEVIRI all-sky radiances | 43 > | SEVIRI clear-sky radiances | 44 > | Himawari-8 clear-sky radiances | 45 > | GOES-16 all-sky radiances | 46 > | GOES-16 clear-sky radiances | 51 > | NOAA-17 and METOP-2 AVHRR brightness temperatures (clear and over ocean) | 52 > | NOAA-17 and METOP-2 AVHRR brightness temperatures (cloudy or over land) | 53 > | NOAA-18 AVHRR brightness temperatures (clear and over ocean) | 54 > | NOAA-18 AVHRR brightness temperatures (cloudy or over land) | 100 > | MTG IRS radiances from principal components | 123 > | Antenna temperatures - AMSU-A | 201 > | DMSP SSMI/S brightness temperatures | 202 > | NPP CrIS radiances | 203 > | NPP ATMS brightness temperatures | 204 > | NPP VIIRS radiances | 205 > | CrIS full spectral radiances (2211 channels) | 206 > | CrIS full spectral radiances (431 channels) | 212 > | CrIS radiances (direct broadcast) | 213 > | ATMS brightness temperatures (direct broadcast) | 239 > | IASI radiances (direct broadcast) | 241 > | IASI radiances | 242 > | Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR L1A2 brightness temperatures | 249 > | AQUA/AIRS AMSU-A brightness temperatures - every field-of-view | 250 > | AQUA/AIRS AMSU-A brightness temperatures - central field-of-view | 254 > | AQUA/AMSR-E brightness temperatures | 255 > | AQUA/AIRS AMSU-A brightness temperatures - warmest field-of-view | 0-55-020=31 | 1 > | BATHY | 2 > | TESAC | 3 > | TRACKOB | 4 > | Airborne Expendable Bathythermograph (AXBT) | 5 > | Subsurface float profiles (BUFR) | 6 > | XBT/XCTD (TESAC) profiles (BUFR) | 7 > | Along track (TRACKOB) observations (BUFR) | 8 > | Marine mammal profiles | 11 > | NLSA ERS-2 sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution regional) | 12 > | NLSA TOPEX sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution regional) | 13 > | NLSA TOPEX sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution regional) | 14 > | NLSA GFO sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution regional) | 101 > | NAVOCEANO ERS-2 sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) | 102 > | NAVOCEANO GFO sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) | 103 > | NAVOCEANO TOPEX sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) | 104 > | NAVOCEANO JASON-1 sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) | 105 > | NAVOCEANO GFO altimeter wind/wave (IGDR) | 106 > | CNES JASON-1 altimeter wind/wave (IGDR) | 107 > | NAVOCEANO GFO altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 108 > | NAVOCEANO ENVISAT altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 109 > | NAVOCEANO ENVISAT sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) | 110 > | NAVOCEANO JASON-1 altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 111 > | CNES JASON-2 altimeter wind/wave (OGDR) | 112 > | NAVOCEANO JASON-2 sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (OGDR) | 113 > | NAVOCEANO JASON-2 sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (IGDR) | 114 > | NAVOCEANO JASON-2 altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 115 > | CNES JASON-2 altimeter wind/wave (OGDR) | 116 > | SSALTO/DUACS ENVISAT sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) | 117 > | NAVOCEANO CRYOSAT-2 sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (IGDR) | 118 > | NAVOCEANO SARAL sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (OGDR) | 119 > | NAVOCEANO SARAL sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (IGDR) | 120 > | NAVOCEANO CRYOSAT-2 altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 121 > | NAVOCEANO SARAL altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 122 > | CNES SARAL altimeter wind/wave (OGDR) | 123 > | CNES CRYOSAT-2 altimeter wind/wave (OGDR) | 124 > | CNES JASON-3 altimeter wind/wave (OGDR) | 125 > | NAVOCEANO JASON-3 sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (OGDR) | 126 > | NAVOCEANO JASON-3 sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (IGDR) | 127 > | NAVOCEANO JASON-3 altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 128 > | NAVOCEANO Sentinel 3A sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (NRT) | 129 > | NAVOCEANO Sentinel 3A sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (STC) | 130 > | NAVOCEANO Sentinel 3A altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 131 > | NAVOCEANO Sentinel 3B sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (NRT) | 132 > | NAVOCEANO Sentinel 3B sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (STC) | 133 > | NAVOCEANO Sentinel 3B altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 134 > | CNES Sentinel 3A altimeter wind/wave (OGDR) | 135 > | CNES Sentinel 3B altimeter wind/wave (OGDR) | 136 > | NAVOCEANO CRYOSAT-2 sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (OGDR) | 137 > | NAVOCEANO Sentinel 6A sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (NRT) | 138 > | NAVOCEANO Sentinel 6A sea-surface height anomaly (high-resolution global) (STC) | 139 > | NAVOCEANO Sentinel 6A altimeter wind/wave (fast delivery) | 0-55-020=255 | 1 > | Mesonet - Denver Urban Drainage (MADIS) | 2 > | Mesonet - RAWS National Interagency Fire Center (MADIS) | 3 > | Mesonet - MesoWest (MADIS) | 4 > | Mesonet - APRS WeatherNet (MADIS) | 5 > | Mesonet - Kansas Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 6 > | Mesonet - Florida (MADIS) | 7 > | Mesonet - Iowa Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 8 > | Mesonet - Minnesota Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 9 > | Mesonet - Anything Weather (MADIS) | 10 > | Mesonet - National Ocean Service PORTS (MADIS) | 11 > | Mesonet - Aberdeen Proving Grounds (MADIS) | 12 > | Mesonet - Weather for You (MADIS) | 13 > | Mesonet - NWS Cooperative Observers (MADIS) | 14 > | Mesonet - NWS HADS (MADIS) | 15 > | Mesonet - AWS (MADIS) | 16 > | Mesonet - Iowa Environmental (MADIS) | 17 > | Mesonet - Oklahoma (MADIS) | 18 > | Mesonet - Colorado Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 19 > | Mesonet - West Texas (MADIS) | 20 > | Mesonet - Wisconsin Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 21 > | Mesonet - LSU-JSU (MADIS) | 22 > | Mesonet - Colorado E-470 (MADIS) | 23 > | Mesonet - DC Net (MADIS) | 24 > | Mesonet - Indiana Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 25 > | Mesonet - Florida Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 26 > | Mesonet - Alaska Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 27 > | Mesonet - Georgia Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 28 > | Mesonet - Virginia Department of Transportation (MADIS) | 29 > | Mesonet - Missouri Commercial Agriculture Weather Net (MADIS) | 30 > | Mesonet - Miscellaneous (MADIS) | 31 > | Urbanet - Miscellaneous (MADIS) | 32 > | Urbanet - University of South Alabama (MADIS) | 33 > | HF-METAR - one-minute ASOS | 101 > | Cooperative observer surface - New England Pilot Project (NEPP) and Historical Climatology Network (HCN) (MADIS) | 102 > | Cooperative observer surface - NWS Cooperative Observers (SHEF) | 111 > | Mesonet - Climate Reference Network (MADIS) | 131 > | Hydrological surface - Denver Urban Drainage (MADIS) | 160 > | Hydrological surface - Miscellaneous (MADIS) | 161 | Snow (MADIS) END