Assessment of radiosonde temperature measurements in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere using COSMIC radio occultation data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  He, Wenying ^a,b   Ho, Shu Peng ^b   Chen, Hongbin ^a   Zhou, Xinjia ^b   Hunt, Doug ^b   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; COSMOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; TROPOSPHERE;

CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE BIAS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

RADIOSONDES;

DATA SET; GPS; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIOSONDE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 71949121477     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038712     Document Type: Article

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