Analysis of a 4 year radiosonde data set at Dome C for characterizing temperature and moisture conditions of the Antarctic atmosphere

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Tomasi, Claudio ^a   Petkov, Boyan ^a,b   Benedetti, Elena ^a   Valenziano, Luca ^c   Vitale, Vito ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DOMES; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY; ANTARCTIC PLATEAU; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPARENCY; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; DATA SETS; DRY AIR; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; GROUND LAYER; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MILLIMETER RANGE; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; MOISTURE PARAMETERS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RADIOSONDE DATAS; RADIOSOUNDING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL RANGE; SUBMILLIMETERS; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TROPOPAUSE REGION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ASTRONOMY; DATA SET; HUMIDITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; RADIATION BALANCE; RADIOSONDE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOPAUSE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 80051697353     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015803     Document Type: Article

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