The GEWEX water vapor assessment: Results from intercomparison, trend, and homogeneity analysis of total column water vapor

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1633-1649

  Schröder, Marc ^a   Lockhoff, Maarit ^a   Forsythe, John M ^b   Cronk, Heather Q ^b   Haar, Thomas H Vonder ^b   Bennartz, Ralf ^c,d  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate records; Climate variability; Climatology; Humidity; Observational techniques and algorithms; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Satellite observations; Stability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GROUND-BASED DATA; HOMOGENEITY ANALYSIS; INTERCOMPARISONS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

WATER VAPOR;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOMOGENEITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

BRANDENBURG [GERMANY]; CHINA; GERMANY; HUBEI; LINDENBERG; YICHANG;

EID: 85043598136     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jamc-d-15-0304.1     Document Type: Article

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