Design and development of a prototype system for detecting abnormal weather observations

  • Authors:
  • Mark Anthony F. Mateo;Carson Kai-Sang Leung

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Manitoba, Canada;The University of Manitoba, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 C3S2E conference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Weather plays an important role in many areas such as agriculture. Having a clean set of agro-meteorological data removes doubt on weather-derived models and ensures confidence on decisions supported by these models. In this paper, we present our design and development of a prototype system for detecting abnormal weather observations. This system is applicable for the real-life data quality control and assurance of reliable and error-free agro-meteorological data. It does so by checking the internal validity, as well as the temporal and spatial consistency, of each weather observation. In addition to having the ability to detect abnormal observations and control the quality of weather data, our system also has the capability to estimate values for temporal and spatial weather parameters. Having such a capability is helpful in replacing incorrect data and filling missing values. Moreover, in this paper, we discuss the challenges and our solutions to problems related to the management of weather observations such as data gaps, format incompatibilities, and integration issues.