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Quality Controlled Radiosonde Profile from MC3E
Abstract
The sonde-adjust VAP produces data that corrects documented biases in radiosonde humidity measurements. Unique fields contained within this datastream include smoothed original relative humidity, dry bias corrected relative humidity, and final corrected relative humidity. The smoothed RH field refines the relative humidity from integers - the resolution of the instrument - to fractions of a percent. This profile is then used to calculate the dry bias corrected field. The final correction fixes a time-lag problem and uses the dry-bias field as input into the algorithm. In addition to dry bias, solar heating is another correction that is encompassed in the final corrected relative humidity field. Additional corrections were made to soundings at the extended facility sites (S0*) as necessary: Corrected erroneous surface elevation (and up through rest of height of sounding), for S03, S04 and S05. Corrected erroneous surface pressure at Chanute (S02).
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Collaborations:
- PNL, BNL,ANL,ORNL
- Subject:
- 54 Environmental Sciences
- Keywords:
- ARM; Atmospheric moisture; Atmospheric temperature; Atmospheric pressure;
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1164928
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.5439/1164928
Citation Formats
Toto, Tami, and Jensen, Michael. Quality Controlled Radiosonde Profile from MC3E. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.5439/1164928.
Toto, Tami, & Jensen, Michael. Quality Controlled Radiosonde Profile from MC3E. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1164928
Toto, Tami, and Jensen, Michael. 2014.
"Quality Controlled Radiosonde Profile from MC3E". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1164928. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1164928. Pub date:Thu Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2014
@article{osti_1164928,
title = {Quality Controlled Radiosonde Profile from MC3E},
author = {Toto, Tami and Jensen, Michael},
abstractNote = {The sonde-adjust VAP produces data that corrects documented biases in radiosonde humidity measurements. Unique fields contained within this datastream include smoothed original relative humidity, dry bias corrected relative humidity, and final corrected relative humidity. The smoothed RH field refines the relative humidity from integers - the resolution of the instrument - to fractions of a percent. This profile is then used to calculate the dry bias corrected field. The final correction fixes a time-lag problem and uses the dry-bias field as input into the algorithm. In addition to dry bias, solar heating is another correction that is encompassed in the final corrected relative humidity field. Additional corrections were made to soundings at the extended facility sites (S0*) as necessary: Corrected erroneous surface elevation (and up through rest of height of sounding), for S03, S04 and S05. Corrected erroneous surface pressure at Chanute (S02).},
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