Measurement requirements for climate monitoring of upper-air temperature derived from reanalysis data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 854-871

  Seidel, Dian J ^a   Free, Melissa ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE MONITORING; REANALYSIS DATA; UPPER-AIR TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; MONITORING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645818344     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3666.1     Document Type: Article

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