Observation errors in early historical upper-air observations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 12,012-12,028

  Wartenburger, R ^a   Bronnimann S ^a   Stickler, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bias; error estimation; observation error; radiosonde; representativity error; upper air observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; RADIOSONDES;

BIAS; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; OBSERVATION ERRORS; REANALYSIS PROJECT; REPRESENTATIVITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; UPPER-AIR OBSERVATIONS; UPPER-AIR TEMPERATURE;

RANDOM ERRORS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPOTENTIAL; METADATA; RADIOSONDE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL PERIOD; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84889785589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020156     Document Type: Article

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