Sentences with phrase «measurement data quality»

Surface Radiation Measurement Data Quality Assessment at the ARM TWP and NSA Sites.
Preliminary Analysis of Surface Radiation Measurement Data Quality at the SGP Extended Facilities.

Not exact matches

For intelligent and networked data processing, at Interpack, Minebea Intec will be presenting a new software release for statistical process controls: SPC@Enterprise 3.0 converts all measurement data into useful information, even in the areas of foreign body detection and dynamic checkweighing, which help to ensure product quality, food safety and productivity.
The information collected will no doubt be particularly valuable once it's cross-referenced with satellite imagery and measurements, as well as with data on water quality and such collected by scientists working in the Gulf and on the coast.
In addition to updating information, the new edition provides additional measurements on a larger number of compounds, along with assessment of data quality.
In 2012 and 2013, Chinese «netizens» realized that domestic air quality data were far rosier than international measurements showed — and that coal use was the main culprit.
These can arise from many technical issues, including data selection, substandard temperature station quality, urban vs rural effects, station moves, and changes in the methods and times of measurement
Because atmospheric conditions such as wind and temperature can greatly affect particulate - matter measurements, researchers from EPIC - India and the Evidence for Policy Design initiative at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gathered data from air - quality monitors in New Delhi and placed monitors in three adjacent cities as a control.
In addition to providing real - time air quality data above and around the leak site to state regulators, the measurements will allow researchers the opportunity to check the accuracy of greenhouse gas measurements made using remote sensing systems such as satellites.
«The beauty here is that the quality of the data enabled us to make a measurement that gives us entirely new insight into the mechanism for this transformation,» said Arianna Gleason, who led the experiment at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
They suggested ways to make strategic decisions about research methods, including frames, samples, measurements, quality controls, and missing data and non-response.
Start getting some basic HRV measurements and then it can be just another helpful data point to help you try to assess and measure and improve metrics associated with stress, elevated sympathetic nervous system, poor sleep quality could also contribute to poor HRV numbers.
Our study is based on student - level data from Chile's national standardized test, Sistema de Medición de la Calidad de la Educación (Educational Quality Measurement System — SIMCE), which assesses students in grades 4, 8, and 10 in language, mathematics, history and geography, and natural sciences.
However, the fact that we find very «precise zeros» — that is, we don't find statistically significant relationships even though we have the statistical power in our data to detect even very modest relationships — implies that neither measurement error nor a lack of sufficient variation are what's driving our inability to detect a relationship between teaching and research quality.
The quality of the measurement tool is critical — the data must be accurate to ensure you're focusing on the correct skills and maximizing instructional impacts.
Data - driven decision - making within a professional learning community: Assessing the predictive qualities of curriculum - based measurements to a high - stakes, state test of reading achievement at the elementary level.
Convened by CCE, the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment (MCIEA) is committed to more authentic ways of assessing student learning and school quality, addressing the shortcomings of current measurement systems by collecting data that is both broader in scope and deeper in substance.
Any measurement system is only as good as the data it uses, and unfortunately, the data available to us was limited in both quantity and quality.
In order to produce quality data with low variability, each dog was trained to stand still for up to 10 measurements, each taking 45 seconds.
I have personally checked 24 of the USHCN stations in the western U.S. and after seeing the gross quality control problems with the current ground - based measurements, have far greater confidence in the RSS and UAH data.
The satellite sst measurements (1982 +) are said to be calibrated using «quality controlled» buoy data, so I presume corrections are rarely necessary with them.
The initial analysis, limited to 2002, plumbed detailed hourly air - quality measurements and other data that indirectly allow the team to backtrack to how much fuel was being burned, Dr. Gurney said.
That's what the instruments are used for — the accuracy is an outcome of the large number of measurements taken, and of quality control checks on the data.
44Ti measurements in meteorites have the potential to provide high quality estimates of past changes in solar magnetic modulation but, until now, the data are sparse and exhibit large errors (Castagnoli et al., 2003).
The SEBS measurements allow the comparison of ECOR sensible and latent heat fluxes with the available energy (surface energy balance) as determined from the SEBS, and provide information on wetting of the sensors for data - quality purposes.
The problem with the historical data (besides accuracy and repeatability and quality control questions,...) is that many of the series or single measurements were done at such places like Diekirch, which introduces a strong positive bias.
The data utilized also included subsurface information obtained through indirect measurements including high - quality 3 - D and 4 - D seismic data, calibrated with available well control information.
Engineering Prof. Questions Temperature Record, Models, CO2 Climate Sensitivity Photo California Baptist University Pontius, 2017 Sustainable Infrastructure: Climate Changes and Carbon Dioxide Temperatures Record «Unreliable», «Arbitrarily Adjusted», And Of «Poor Data Quality» Temperature measurement stations have been installed at various locations across the globe.
The SAG on ozone and solar ultraviolet radiation establish data quality objectives and standard operating procedures outlining measurement methods and procedures.251
FMI is conducting important research related to climate change, weather prediction and hydrological modeling, where high quality field measurements are still needed beside models and satellite data.
Depending on the amount of mining in the impacted watersheds, the quality of existing baseline data, and the number of measurements taken during and after the flood, scientists may not find a «smoking gun» directly linking the severity of this flood event with MTR mining.
As ships emit more particulate matter and black carbon per unit of fuel consumed than other fossil fuel combustion sources due to the quality of fuel used, it introduces measurement and data availability, in order to provide abatement options.
In 2012 and 2013, Chinese «netizens» realized that domestic air quality data were far rosier than international measurements showed — and that coal use was the main culprit.
The dependence of the ECV data quality on main measurement and retrieval parameters like the solar zenith angle, ozone column amount, latitude, and cloud parameters (fractional cloud cover, cloud top height and albedo, etc. as appropriate) shall be investigated.
Because of these quality and measurement issues, the keepers of these data employ a set of adjustments to address their many problems.
In fact, via Anthony Watts, here is the world map of temperature measurement points that have data for all of the 20th century (of whatever quality):
Calypso is intended to provide users with some user - friendly means to investigate the content and extent of the various data collected or produced, to visually assess the quality and accuracy of the satellite measurements, as well as displaying or comparing other potiential sources of measurements.
Promotion and, to the extent possible, development of globally acceptable measurement procedures, data - flow standards, data quality control protocols, and data and information product development
Thus I have discussed more the issue of what might be possible based on fragmentary data where individual measurements are subject to many sources of error than what is the quality of the present knowledge.
For this study, we linked monthly data on the amount of coal stored on - site at each of 236 coal - fired power plants across the United States to measurements from nearby air quality monitors.
Yet, they seem to have punted on the issues of site and measurement quality, relying instead upon new ways of slicing and dicing all data: bad, good, or of unknown quality.
And you AGW - «Skeptics» are the ones who want that the surface temperature analyses which use measurements from meteorological stations were all wrong, because of artefacts in the measured temperature raw data or because of artificially warming trends allegedly introduced by quality control and / or homogenizaton procedures.
The raw temperature measurements, along with instrument quality information and locations, are data in the first and second senses.
It's hard to trust the official data from the Chinese government about most things, but when it comes to air pollution in Beijing, there's a good proxy: The U.S. Embassy has been publishing its own air quality measurements, and they're pretty much uniformly horrible.
Curry wrote that it «seems rather ironic, since this is the period where there is the greatest coverage of data with the highest quality of measurements — ARGO buoys and satellites don't show a warming trend.»
It scares one sometimes that live feeds of quantitative data via online summarized metrics dashboards are: a) reliant on alogrithms / formulae constructed by humans b) may only reflect a point in time that is transient and needs to be somehow replicated accurately later in the future if needed for evidence c) may draw upon real time data from multiple sources for different parts of the screen (via widgets) d) data source quality needs to be interpreted against the data owner's original meaning of that measurement and criteria.
Other commenters asserted that covered entities need complete data sets on the populations they serve to effectively conduct research and quality improvement projects and that restrictions would hinder research, skew findings, impede quality improvement, and compromise accreditation and performance measurement.
Measurement Department Chief Clerks have to direct clerks in preparing production, transportation and sales reports or purchase orders and to oversee the data used to determine the quality of natural gas.
Hard - working and dynamic Measurement Department Chief Clerk with eight years of experience in coordinating and supervising the activities of the employees engaged in preparing reports on the quality and quantity of oil or natural gas; who is capable of analyzing data and of identifying key solutions to problems
Consistently monitored machinery, taking measurements and interpreting data to improve water quality
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