Robust automated quality assurance of radiosonde temperatures

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2081-2095

  Durre, Imke ^a   Vose, Russell S ^a   Wuertz, David B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOSONDES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DATA ERRORS; MANUAL INSPECTIONS; OUT-LIERS; POSITIVE RATES; RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURES; RANDOM SAMPLES; ROBUST PERFORMANCES; TEMPORAL INCONSISTENCIES; THREE STEPS; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES;

RANDOM ERRORS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOSONDE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 54249091440     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1809.1     Document Type: Article

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