radiosonde measurements
Validation of brightness and physical temperature from two scanning microwave radiometers in the 60 GHz O 2band using radiosonde measurements
... The presented study aims to assess the tropospheric perfor- mance of the TEMPERA radiometer, and compares it with independent in situ radiosonde measurements. TEMPERA has also been compared with a ...
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Is it feasible to estimate radiosonde biases from interlaced measurements?
... one radiosonde type to another, inter-comparison between the two radiosonde types is required to assess a potential systematic differ- ence between the radiosondes and to correct for it, ensur- ing a ...
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Matching radiative transfer models and radiosonde data from the EPS/Metop Sodankyl¨a campaign to IASI measurements
... Time co-location is achieved by combining the CFH son- des launched 1 h before overpass time and the bias corrected humidity ones (RS92) launched 5 min before satellite over- pass. A linear interpolation or extrapolation ...
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Calibration of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network using aircraft profile data
... tower measurements are described by Inoue and Matsueda ...Learjet-25 measurements was provided by the NASA ASCENDS development and ESTO IIP ...flask measurements at the SGP ARM site is from ...
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Correcting negatively biased refractivity below ducts in GNSS radio occultation: an optimal estimation approach towards improving planetary boundary layer (PBL) characterization
... shown in Fig. 4. Original RAOB h(x) profiles are shown as the light red lines in Fig. 4, which are non-monotonic func- tions in the trapping layer near ∼ 1.5 km for all six cases. Using the RAOB refractivity profiles as ...
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A Comparative Study of Cloud Liquid Water Content from Radiosonde Data at a Tropical Location
... known. Radiosonde measurements are obtained twice a day at around 00 and 12 GMT (1830 and 0630 IST) by the Indian Meteorological Department at Kolkata, India (22˚C 34N, 88˚C ...
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Completeness of radiosonde humidity observations based on the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive
... Abstract. Radiosonde measurements from the 1930s to present give unique information on the distribution and variability of water vapor in the ...Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) Version 2 are ...
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Retrieval of convective available potential energy from INSAT-3D measurements: comparison with radiosonde data and their spatial–temporal variations
... 3D measurements and evaluate comprehensively over the In- dian ...the radiosonde measurements collected from the Wyoming University along with the ERA-Interim ...and radiosonde CAPE is higher ...
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Implementation of a GNSS meteorological model to the estimation of the Haines Index
... Results: To characterize the regional performance of HI, we used data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast ’ s (ECMWF) reanalysis model (ERA Interim; Dee et al., Quarterly Journal of the Royal ...
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Reference quality upper-air measurements: GRUAN data processing for the Vaisala RS92 radiosonde
... RS92 radiosonde was developed to meet the cri- teria for reference ...in radiosonde measurements of pressure, tem- perature, humidity, and wind, as well as how the uncertain- ties related to these ...
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Determining the temporal variability in atmospheric temperature profiles measured using radiosondes and assessment of correction factors for different launch schedules
... with radiosonde measurements (Immler et ...profile measurements (von Clarmann, ...using radiosonde results for inter- comparisons with other temperature ...
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An assessment of the performance of a 1.5 µm Doppler lidar for operational vertical wind profiling based on a 1-year trial
... Abstract. We present the results of a 1-year quasi- operational testing of the 1.5 µm StreamLine Doppler lidar developed by Halo Photonics from 2 October 2012 to 2 Oc- tober 2013. The system was configured to ...
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Propagation of radiosonde pressure sensor errors to ozonesonde measurements
... Two radiosonde types from Vaisala (Vantaa, Finland; RS80-15N, RS92-SGP; herein RS80 and RS92) and three from International Met Systems (Grand Rapids, MI, USA; iMet, iMet-P, iMet-S) were launched at the various ...
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Assessment of GPS radiosonde descent data
... the radiosonde measure- ments worldwide by Durre et ...quality radiosonde systems (WMO, ...simultaneous radiosonde ob- servations and found good agreement between the ...
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Comparing the cloud vertical structure derived from several methods based on radiosonde profiles and ground-based remote sensing measurements
... RS80 radiosonde, and a GTS1 radiosonde were ...every radiosonde instrument that they ...of radiosonde data for determining cloud vertical ...from radiosonde data some- times diverges ...
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Return glider radiosonde for in situ upper-air research measurements
... New radiosonde instruments for in situ humidity-, radiation- and gas-profile measurements in the troposphere and the lower stratosphere, were introduced in recent years for at- mospheric research and ...
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Radiosonde Payload for Weather Balloons
... Indian meteorological department measures the practical weather (temperature, pressure, humidity wind direction etc.) by using hydrogen balloons. In order to measure the practical weather, they have to send hydrogen ...
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Forecasting the Distribution of Water Vapour Observed By GPS Radio Occultations and Comparison with the Results Obtained From Radiosonde Data Over Indian Regions (8°-38°N and 66°-98°E) Using Data Mining Applications
... Fabrizio Pelliccia et al [8] discussed about a procedure for retrieval of tropospheric profiles(temperature, pressure, humidity) using only refractivity profiles coming from Global Positioning Systems’ Low-Earth-Orbit ...
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Correction technique for Raman water vapor lidar signal-dependent bias and suitability for water vapor trend monitoring in the upper troposphere
... Prior to data runs on 10 nights during MOHAVE-2009, a stabilized tungsten lamp was used to directly illuminate the lidar receiver in an implementation of the “hybrid tech- nique” (Leblanc and McDermid, 2008, 2011; ...
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Historic thermal calibration of landsat 5 TM through an improved physics based approach
... The troposphere is the lowest of the four major layers in the atmosphere extending from the ground to roughly 10-12 km. More than 80% of the earths atmospheric mass and nearly all of the earths atmospheric water vapor, ...
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