National Weather Service in-situ radiation temperature correction for radiosonde replacement system GPS radiosondes

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 5907-5910

  Bower Jr , Carl A ^a,b   Fitzgibbon, J J ^a  

^a National Weather Service   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT (ATM); IN-SITU RADIATION CORRECTIONS; RADIATION CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; SOLAR ELEVATION ANGLES;

ALGORITHMS; ALUMINUM; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; COATINGS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEAT TRANSFER; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; RADIOSONDES; SOLAR ABSORBERS; THERMISTORS;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 2442583022     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. National Weather Service Specification NWS-J070-RS-SP005B, February 2002. Specification No. NWS-J070-RS-SP005B for Global Positioning System and Signal Processing System. Silver Spring, Maryland.
2. Schmidlin, F. J., Luers, J. K., and Huffman, P. D. 1986: Preliminary Estimates of Radiosonde Thermistor Errors. NASA Technical Paper 2637. Wallops Island, Virginia.
3. World Meteorological Organization, 1995: Guide to Meteorological Instruments and Methods of Observation. Sixth Edition, WMO-No. 8, Geneva.
4. Luers, J. K., Temperature Correction Models for the Worlds Major Radiosondes 1990-1995. Final Report, OAA Contract 50EANE-2-00077, August 1996, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, North Carolina.
5. Poore, K. D. Wang, J., and Rossow, W. B. 1995: Cloud Layer Thicknesses from a Combination of Surface and Upper-air Observations, Journal of Climate, Volume 8, March 1995.