Effects on climate records of changes in National Weather Service humidity processing procedures

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2424-2436

  Elliott, William P ^a,b   Ross, Rebecca J ^a   Schwartz, Barry ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; DATA MANAGEMENT; ERROR CORRECTION; HUMIDITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032463621     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2424:EOCROC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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