Systematic differences in aircraft and radiosonde temperatures

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1689-1707

  Ballish, Bradley A ^a   Kumar, V Krishna ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; ERRORS; METADATA; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOSONDES; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT DATUM; BIAS CORRECTIONS; DATA COVERAGES; DEEP AMPLITUDES; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; INTERPOLATION ERRORS; MEAN TEMPERATURES; MONTHLY CHANGES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODELS; RADIOSONDE DATUM; RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE BIAS; VERTICAL RESOLUTIONS;

AIRCRAFT MODELS;

EID: 60849107605     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2332.1     Document Type: Article

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