ISMN quality control procedures for in situ soil moisture time series
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conda install -c conda-forge pandas scipy numpyThis following command will install the flagit pip package:
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conda create -n flagit python=3.10 # or any supported python version
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conda env update -f environment.yml -n flagit
python setup.py developAfter that you should be able to run:
python setup.py testto run the test suite.
The International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) quality control procedures are used to detect implausible and dubious measurements in hourly situ soil moisture time series. When downloading data at ISMN all variable-data are provided with additional tags in column "qflag", which can be one of three main categories: C (exceeding plausible geophysical range), D (questionable/dubious) or G (good).
| code | description | ancillary data required |
|---|---|---|
| C01 | soil moisture < 0 m³/m³ | |
| C02 | soil moisture > 0.60 m³/m³ | |
| C03 | soil moisture > saturation point (based on HWSD) | HWSD sand, clay and organic content |
| D01 | negative soil temperature (in situ) | in situ soil temperature |
| D02 | negative air temperature (in situ) | in situ air temperature |
| D03 | negative soil temperature (GLDAS) | GLDAS soil temperature |
| D04 | rise in soil moisture without precipitation (in situ) | in situ precipitation |
| D05 | rise in soil moisture without precipitation (GLDAS) | GLDAS precipitation |
| D06 | spikes | |
| D07 | negative breaks (drops) | |
| D08 | positive breaks (jumps) | |
| D09 | constant low values following negative break | |
| D10 | saturated plateaus | |
| G | good |
At ISMN, ancillary data sets are used for flags C03, D01 - D05 (see table above). Since we do not provide ancillary data, we kindly ask users to either provide their own ancillary in situ and GLDAS data (including a soil moisture saturation value for flag C03) in the input (pandas.DataFrame), or accept the limitation of the quality control to flags without ancillary requirements.
We hope to update the functionality of this package to facilitate the inclusion of ancillary data.
For a detailed description of the quality control procedures see paper on Global Automated quality control.
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