Robert A. Baxter,
Certified Consulting Meteorologist
Professional Specialties
Audit Methods
Radar
antenna alignment
check in Mojave, CA
Audit methods
have evolved over the past decades which better evaluate the performance
of various instruments and better assess the
appropriateness of the systems for measurement of the intended variables.
During this time I have been intimately involved in the development of
guidance and audit methods and have presented papers to aid the measurement
community in the implementation of such techniques. Selected publications
of interest are listed below. More information about the listed papers
can be found in my publications
page. The implementation of the methods have been presented at numerous
workshops on quality assurance
Some of my publications on audit
methods and techniques are:
Innovative Procedures
for the Performance Auditing of Radar Wind and RASS Profilers, 2002
A Simple Step by Step
Method for the Alignment of Wind Sensors to True North, 2001
Quality Assurance Methods
for Ground-Based Meteorological Remote Sensors, 1999
Quality Assurance of
Remote Wind Profilers During the 1995 EPA Sodar Characterization Study,
1996
Draft Guidelines for
the Quality Assurance and Management of PAMS Upper-Air Meteorological Data,
1995
Quality Assurance of
Data Produced from Sodars -- Application of a New Instrument for Field Performance
Auditing, 1995
Performance Auditing
of Sodars Under the New USEPA Guidance -- Applications of a New Instrument
to Quantitatively Assess Sodar Performance, 1995
Development of a Universal
Acoustic Pulse Transponding System for Performance Auditing Sodars, 1994
Performance of Sodar
Audits Under the New USEPA Guidance, 1994
Results of the 1991
LMOS Remote Wind Profiling Audit Program, 1993
Some key
methods I have developed and implemented include:
