Radiation dry bias correction of vaisala RS92 humidity data and its impacts on historical radiosonde data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 197-214

  Wang, Junhong ^a,b   Zhang, Liangying ^a   Dai, Aiguo ^b   Immler, Franz ^c   Sommer, Michael ^d   Vömel, Holger ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^d DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE OBSERVING SYSTEMS; LONG-TERM TREND; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RADIATION BIAS; RADIOSONDE DATAS; STANDARD DEVIATION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ALGORITHMS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; TROPOSPHERE;

RADIOSONDES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CORRECTION; DIURNAL VARIATION; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84874992313     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00113.1     Document Type: Article

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