Improving the usefulness of operational radiosonde data

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 411-416

  Durre, Imke ^a   Reale, Tony ^a   Carlson, David ^b   Christy, John ^c   Uddstrom, Michael ^d   Gelman, Melvyn ^a   Thorne, Peter ^e  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e Hadley Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; MEASUREMENTS; METADATA; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

DATA INTEGRITY; NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER (CO); NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIOSONDE DATA; RADIOSONDE MEASUREMENTS;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 17644403536     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-3-411     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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