Quality control of surface station temperature data with non-Gaussian observation-minus-background distributions

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Qin, Z K ^a   Zou, X ^a,b   Li, G ^a   Ma, X L ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GROUND STATE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BACKGROUND ERRORS; BACKGROUND FIELD; DATA ASSIMILATION; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OBSERVATION ERRORS; PHASE DIFFERENCE; QC PROCEDURE; SEMIDIURNAL OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL METHODS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE GROUND; SURFACE STATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS; WEATHER EVENTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 77956269478     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013695     Document Type: Article

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