Impact of balloon drift errors in radiosonde data on climate statistics

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3430-3442

  McGrath, Ray ^a   Semmler, Tido ^a   Sweeney, Conor ^a   Wang, Shiyu ^a  

^a Irish Meteorological Service   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOSONDES; STATISTICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

CLIMATE STATISTICS; DRIFT ERRORS; RADIOSONDE DATA; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RADIOSONDE;

EID: 33746828539     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3804.1     Document Type: Article

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