Challenges in estimating trends in Arctic surface-based inversions from radiosonde data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Yehui ^a   Seidel, Dian J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC STATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIOSONDE DATAS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE-BASED INVERSION; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

RADIOSONDES;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADIOSONDE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RESOLUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC;

EID: 80052698483     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048728     Document Type: Article

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