Unprecedented upper-air dropsonde observations over Antarctica from the 2010 Concordiasi Experiment: Validation of satellite-retrieved temperature profiles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1231-1236

  Wang, Junhong ^a,b   Hock, Terry ^b   Cohn, Stephen A ^b   Martin, Charlie ^b   Potts, Nick ^b   Reale, Tony ^c   Sun, Bomin ^d   Tilley, Frank ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^d IM Systems Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Dropsonde; Satellite; Temperature profile

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; DROPSONDE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

CLIMATOLOGY; IONOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

SATELLITES;

DATA SET; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84876945456     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50246     Document Type: Article

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