Time, probe type, and temperature variable bias corrections to historical expendable bathythermograph observations

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1793-1825

  Cheng, Lijing ^a,b   Zhu, Jiang ^a   Cowley, Rebecca ^c   Boyer, Tim ^d   Wijffels, Susan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Data processing; In situ oceanic observations; Instrumentation sensors

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

BIAS; CORRECTION SCHEMES; EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; INSTRUMENTATION/SENSORS; SITU OCEANIC OBSERVATIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIABLES; TERMINAL VELOCITY; WATER TEMPERATURES;

PROBES;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR CORRECTION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SAMPLING BIAS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSOR; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84902124415     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00197.1     Document Type: Article

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