Table F LOC | 0 | 7 | 1
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# Local BUFR Table CODE/FLAG, Master Table 0, Originating Center 7, Version 1
# This file was generated: 2024/09/16 19:31:11
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# 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)
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# 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)
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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 ; FLAG
| 1 > | All parameters of nominal accuracy
| 2 > | Latitude or longitude questionable
| 3 | Geopotential altitude or static pressure questionable
0-33-242 | QHDOM ; FLAG
| 1 > | All parameters of nominal accuracy
| 2 > | Temperature or dewpoint temperature questionable
| 3 > | Flight-level winds questionable
| 4 | 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)
| 40 > | MW temperature/humidity sounding
| 50 > | Radio occultation sounding
| 104 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from fixed-land stations (TEMP) with re-used radiosondes
| 105 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from ships (TEMP SHIP) with re-used radiosondes
| 106 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from mobile-land stations (TEMP MOBIL) with re-used radiosondes
| 114 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from descent radiosondes originally launched from fixed land stations with re-used radiosondes
| 115 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from descent radiosondes originally launched from ships with re-used radiosondes
| 116 > | Upper-level temperature/humidity/wind reports from descent radiosondes originally launched from mobile land stations with re-used radiosondes
| 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)
| 121 > | Surface marine SOFAR (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
| 17 > | AMDAR-over-AFIRS
| 30 > | Long-duration balloon
| 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
| 34 > | RWIS - South Dakota Department of Transportation (MADIS)
| 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)
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