edu.ucar.opensky::articles:24497 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-25T06:29:08.816601 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7g44tqq https://doi.org/10.5065/d6rx99hx https Related Service #1 Cheyenne: SGI ICE XA Cluster Deep-learning-based precipitation observation quality control 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7g44tqq https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-20-0081.1 Sha, Y. author Gagne, David John author West, G. author Stull, R. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher We present a novel approach for the automated quality control (QC) of precipitation for a sparse station observation network within the complex terrain of British Columbia, Canada. Our QC approach uses convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify bad observation values, incorporating a multiclassifier ensemble to achieve better QC performance. We train CNNs using human QC'd labels from 2016 to 2017 with gridded precipitation and elevation analyses as inputs. Based on the classification evaluation metrics, our QC approach shows reliable and robust performance across different geographical environments (e.g., coastal and inland mountains), with 0.927 area under curve (AUC) and type I/type II error lower than 15%. Based on the saliency-map-based interpretation studies, we explain the success of CNN-based QC by showing that it can capture the precipitation patterns around, and upstream of the station locations. This automated QC approach is an option for eliminating bad observations for various applications, including the preprocessing of training datasets for machine learning. It can be used in conjunction with human QC to improve upon what could be accomplished with either method alone. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation