On the homogeneity of radiosonde wind time series

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 631-643

  Gruber, Christine ^a   Haimberger, Leopold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT METHOD; BACKGROUND WINDS; BIAS CORRECTION; CLIMATE STUDIES; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DATA SETS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; FIRST LOOK; INHOMOGENEITIES; RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURE; RADIOSONDE WINDS; UPPER AIR; WIND DATA;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; RADIOSONDES; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSONDE; TIME SERIES;

EID: 56349153024     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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