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This document details the data processing, quality control and assessment analysis conducted on the instrumentation systems deployed by the Naval Postgraduate School Boundary Layer Processes research group as part of the CASPER-West field campaign.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited, Measuring atmospheric fluxes requires various steps of measurement quality control, in addition to experimental design and post-processing corrections, in order to provide robust and high-fidelity data for wider use. However, within the measurement community, methods for these control steps are still applied ad hoc. Regardless of the availability of several comprehensive references texts available in the literature and licensed software programs.The theoretical and technical design of an algorithm for eddy covariance flux sample quality control and assessment is presented. This algorithm, WISQ, is robust and efficient and can be readily incorporated into existing processing experimental software packages. The goal of this algorithm is to output a flagging system that can be used to judge the quality of individual flux samples, with the option for outputting more detailed information. WISQ is unique in that it directly and automatically assess the sample flux accumulation and convergence. WISQ is also a general method that can be utilized for flux measurement outside of the realm of meteorology and is open-sourced for ease in development and innovation.

Office of Naval Research, v1.1: Additional text was added describing a review of some previous field campaigns conducted on the R/P FLIP, with focus placed on those investigators’ discussions of FLIP’s motion to various deployment schemes. This includes a new section (II.A.1) and an additional table (Table 1). These changes do not impact the results or analysis presented in v1., This document details the data processing, quality control and assessment analysis conducted on the instrumentation systems deployed by the Naval Postgraduate School Boundary Layer Processes research group as part of the CASPER-West field campaign., Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.