Intercomparisons, Error Assessments, and Technical Information on Historical Upper Air Measurements
- Author(s)
- Noemi Imfeld, Leopold Haimberger, Alexander Sterin, Yuri Brugnara, Stefan Brönnimann
- Abstract
Upper-air data form the backbone of weather analysis and reanalysis products, particularly in the pre-satellite era. However, they are particularly prone to errors and uncertainties, especially data from the early days of aerology. Information that allows us to better characterize the errors of radiosonde data is important. This paper reports on an attempt to collect data from historical upper-air intercomparisons and from historical error assessments reaching back to the 1930s. The digitized numerical data will be made available through Copernicus Climate Change Services; here we publish the full information that includes images, literature, and other metadata that may be relevant and can be used to inform homogenization approaches or reanalysis production. The data collection described in this paper is available on PANGAEA: doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.925860 (Imfeld et al., 2021).
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Meteorology and Geophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Universität Bern, RIHMI Russian Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information
- Journal
- Earth System Science Data
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- 2471–2485
- No. of pages
- 15
- ISSN
- 1866-3508
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2471-2021
- Publication date
- 2020
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105204 Climatology, 105206 Meteorology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 13 - Climate Action
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/intercomparisons-error-assessments-and-technical-information-on-historical-upper-air-measurements(a5611003-221c-4acb-a8b1-8410b0fd2b57).html