Comparing radiosonde and COSMIC atmospheric profile data to quantify differences among radiosonde types and the effects of imperfect collocation on comparison statistics

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Sun, Bomin ^a,b   Reale, Anthony ^b   Seidel, Dian J ^c   Hunt, Douglas C ^d  

^a IM Systems Group ^*  (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; COSMOLOGY; ERRORS; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; RADIOSONDES; REFRACTION; STATISTICS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; COMPARISON STANDARD; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; IN-SITU SOUNDING; OPERATIONAL NETWORK; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; REFRACTIVITY PROFILES; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SPATIAL COLLOCATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DATA; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IONOSPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 78649982117     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014457     Document Type: Article

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