Reexamining the warming in the tropical upper troposphere: Models versus radiosonde observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Seidel, Dian J ^a   Free, Melissa ^a   Wang, James S ^a,b  

^a NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CLIMATE MODELS; RADIOSONDES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; DATA SETS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT BIAS; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; MODEL PERFORMANCE; SENSITIVITY-OF-RESULTS; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL DIFFERENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 84870276830     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053850     Document Type: Article

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