Solar and thermal radiation errors on upper-air radiosonde temperature measurements

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2382-2393

  Philipona, R ^a   Krauchi A ^b   Romanens, G ^a   Levrat, G ^a   Ruppert, P ^c   Brocard, E ^a   Jeannet, P ^a   Ruffieux, D ^a   Calpini, B ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c Meteolabor AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Climate records; Instrumentation sensors; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY PROFILES; CLIMATE RECORD; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; INSTRUMENTATION/SENSORS; RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURE; REFERENCE MEASUREMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT RADIATION; RADIANT HEATING; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLES; TROPOSPHERE;

RADIOSONDES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY; RADIOSONDE; SENSOR; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84886606091     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00047.1     Document Type: Article

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