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Weather
Data Information
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Weather
Data Source.
The weather data was obtained from the following
five sources: (1)
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
of the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), (2) COOP
Stations, (3) Meteorological Aviation Report (METAR), (4) Crop Weather Program
Weather Station Network at
Corpus
Christi,
Texas, and (5) Beaumont/Eagle Lake research weather stations
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Data
Quality Control. A vigorous program was
used to check for data errors and estimate missing data points. A linear
interpolation method is used to estimate ten or fewer consecutive missing
data points for the following weather measurements: temperature, relative
humidity, wind speed, wind direction, solar radiation, and ET0.
Since rainfall does not follow any pattern, missing rainfall data will be
flagged as missing. For ten days to 4 months of consecutive missing
data points, we use historic average weather data and adjust it
proportionally with the current average for the adjacent period. Historic
average is calculated based on past 30 years (minimum of 5 years) of data by
excluding invalid and missing data points.
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Automatic
Weather Data Update.
Computer programs
automatically retrieves weather data from the above five data sources for all
available weather stations, pass the retrieved data through the quality control
program and store the filtered data in our weather database.
The NOAA weather data is usually 1-2 months old when it is available to
us. The remaining four sources provide near real-time weather data with just
one to three days of delay
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Station
Filter. Active: Display only
stations that contains at least some weather data for the past six months. Inactive:
Display only stations that does not contain any weather data for the past six
months. All: Display all stations that contains
any weather data.
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