Sensitivity of tropospheric and stratospheric temperature trends to radiosonde data quality

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1776-1796

  Gaffen, Dian J ^a   Sargent, Michael A ^b,d   Habermann, R E ^a   Lanzante, John R ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Cybarus Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOSONDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

LOWER STRATOSPHERE; PARAMETRIC LEAST SQUARES LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA QUALITY; RADIOSONDE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0033939784     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1776:SOTAST>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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