Toward improved corrections for radiation-induced biases in radiosonde temperature observations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4231-4243

  Sun, Bomin ^a   Reale, Anthony ^a   Schroeder, Steven ^b   Seidel, Dian J ^a   Ballish, Bradley ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biases; corrections; COSMIC; radiosonde; temperature

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; IONOSPHERE; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE;

BIASES; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; CORRECTIONS; COSMIC; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; STANDARD DEVIATION;

RADIOSONDES;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; COSMIC; DATA SET; IONOSPHERE; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 84881140333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50369     Document Type: Article

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