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Evaluating instrumental inhomogeneities in global radiosonde upper tropospheric humidity data using microwave satellite data
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
LuleƄ University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Space Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6389-1160
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK.
STAR, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, MD, USA.
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2013 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, ISSN 0196-2892, E-ISSN 1558-0644, Vol. 51, no 6, p. 3615-3624Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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In this paper, the overall quality of the water vapor profiles of global operational radiosonde data for the period 2000-2009 is investigated using upper tropospheric humidity (UTH) retrieved from microwave satellite data. Overall, the nighttime radiosonde data showed a dry bias (-5% to-15%) over Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and systematically moist bias (greater than 30%) over China and the former Soviet Union. The nighttime sonde data from the U.S. and Canada showed a bias between-10% and 20%. Most stations indicated a daytime radiation dry bias, except for a few stations from the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. A sensorwise comparison showed a large nighttime wet bias for the Russian (MRZ-3A and MARS) and Chinese GZZ-2 sensors, a relatively small nighttime wet bias for the U.S. Sippican and VIZ-B2 sensors, and a nighttime dry bias for the Chinese GTS1, Vaisala (RS80-A, RS80-H, RS90, RS92K, and RS92-SGP), and the U.S. VIZ-MKII sensors. All sensors had a daytime radiation dry bias, except for the Russian MRZ-3A sensor that had a daytime radiation wet bias that could be because of the daytime radiation bias correction. Because of the large differences between different radiosonde sensors, it is essential for UTH studies to only use the data measured using a single type of sensor at any given station.

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2013. Vol. 51, no 6, p. 3615-3624
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-3967DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2220551ISI: 000320941300012Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84878126576Local ID: 1d04c04a-5b4b-4f70-87bd-8f9e5a3c16a8OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-3967DiVA, id: diva2:976829
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Available from: 2016-09-29 Created: 2016-09-29 Last updated: 2023-09-11Bibliographically approved

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