USArray Quality Assurance Mary Templeton IRIS Data Management Center
USArray n National Science Foundation Initiative: n Transportable Array (400 broadband stations)
USArray n Reference Network (116 broadband stations)
USArray n Flexible Array (2400 -instrument pool for shortterm targeted experiments)
USArray Data n Transportable Array and Reference Network data receive QA:
USArray Quality Assurance n n n Report problems that can be fixed Document problems that cannot be fixed Provide information so that others can characterize data quality
USArray Quality Assurance n Spotting problems: n n n Automated Metrics Synthetics: events and earth tides Three analysts review: waveforms n metadata n metrics & synthetics n
Automated Metrics n n QUACK Power Spectral Density (PSD) tools n n n hardware problems instrument response issues noise characterization
Automated Metrics n Station Ranking (PSD weekly modes) n pinpoints anomalous stations
Synthetics 2011/10/28 Central Peru, Mw=6. 9 Earth tides n n n hardware problems instrument response issues phase, orientation errors
USArray Quality Assurance n Reporting: n n Reports and emails to network operators Data Problem Reports Performance Metrics Station histories
Data Quality Reporting data problem report station histories, and other QA info http: //crunch. iris. washington. edu/stationinfo/_US-TA-Station. List. shtml