Ensemble spread and its implication for the evaluation of temperature trends from multiple radiosondes and reanalyses products

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Jianjun ^a   Powell Jr , Alfred M ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

850-HPA; ANTARCTICA; DATA SETS; DATA SOURCE; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MEASURING UNCERTAINTY; RADIOSONDE DATAS; REANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; WEATHER FORECASTS;

ATMOSPHERICS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COOLING; DATA SET; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATITUDE; RADIOSONDE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77956450711     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044300     Document Type: Article

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