BSRN Toolbox V2.0 – a tool to create quality checked output files from BSRN datasets and station-to-archive files

The BSRN Toolbox is a software package supplied by the WRMC and is freely available to all station scientists and data users. The main features of the package include a download manager for Station- to-Archive files, a tool to convert files into human readable TAB-separated ASCII-tables (similar to those output by the PANGAEA database), and a tool to check data sets for violations of the "BSRN Global Network recommended QC tests, V2.0" quality criteria. The latter tool creates quality codes, one per measured value, indicating if the data are "physically possible," "extremely rare," or if "intercomparison limits are exceeded.” In addition, auxiliary data such as solar zenith angle or global calculated from diffuse and direct can be output. All output from the QC tool can be visualized using PanPlot (doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.816201).

BSRN工具箱（BSRN Toolbox）是由WRMC提供的软件包，面向所有台站科研人员与数据用户免费开放使用。该软件包具备三大核心功能：一是用于“台站至归档”文件的下载管理器；二是可将文件转换为人类可读的制表符分隔ASCII表格（格式与PANGAEA数据库的输出结果相仿）的转换工具；三是用于检测数据集是否违反“BSRN全球网络推荐质量控制（Quality Control, QC）测试V2.0”质量标准的校验工具。该校验工具会为每个测量值生成质量编码，用以标注数据为“物理上可行”“极为罕见”，抑或“超出比对限值”。此外，还可输出太阳天顶角等辅助数据，以及由散射辐射与直接辐射计算得到的总辐射数据。所有质控工具的输出结果均可通过PanPlot（doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.816201）实现可视化展示。