Temperature Correction Models for the World's Major Radiosondes, 1960-1995

摘要

The National Climatic Data Center and the All-Union Research Institute ofHydrometeorological Information of Russia have initiated a joint project called the Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set (CARDS). The goal of the CARDS project is to produce an upper-air dataset based on radiosonde and pibal observations, suitable for evaluating climate model and detecting global change. A keystone of the CARDS research program is the development of methods to identify systematic errors (biases) in the upper-air data using statistical techniques and to develop temperature correction models for the most widely used radiosondes of the 1940-1990 period. Each of the temperature correction models are described in a separated chapter of this report.