Evaluation of humidity correction methods for Vaisala RS92 tropical sounding data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 397-411

  Yu, Hungjui ^a   Ciesielski, Paul E ^b   Wang, Junhong ^c   Kuo, Hung Chi ^a   Vömel, Holger ^d   Dirksen, Ruud ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data quality control; Global positioning systems (GPS); In situ atmospheric observations; Instrumentation sensors; Radiosonde observations; Soundings

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSONDES; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

DATA QUALITY CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION/SENSORS; RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS; SITU ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; SOUNDINGS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DATA QUALITY; GPS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SENSOR;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84921746084     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00166.1     Document Type: Article

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