Abstract: The paper describes the results of an experiment where, for a series of flights, Philips RS4 and Väisälä RS80 radiosondes were mounted on the same balloon. It is shown that there are both random and systematic differences ...

Abstract: The retrieval of vertical profiles of temperature and water vapor from atmospheric radiances is an ill-posed, nonlinear inversion problem. A linear retrieval estimator must be cast in a form which both minimizes the effects ...

Abstract: Temperature sensors on radiosondes measure a temperature that is a balance between the temperature of the air and the temperature of the radiation environment of the sensor. Because of this balance, the temperature reported ...

Abstract: Twelve months of Southern Hemisphere (maritime) midlatitudes Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer local area coverage data at full radiometric and spatial resolution have been collocated with rain-rate data from three ...

Abstract: he fire danger rating system implemented in New Zealand is the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System developed 40 years ago for Canadian temperate forests. Issues have been raised in relation to this system when applied ...

Abstract: trong southerly winds regularly occur in the Cook Strait region of New Zealand. Occasionally, these winds are strong enough to cause severe damage to property and threaten human life. One example of a storm containing such ...

Abstract: and Contributions from 23 additional Workshop participants The Workshop to Improve the Usefulness of Operational Radiosonde Data was held at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina, from ...

Abstract: This paper reports on the first application of a multispectral textural Bayesian cloud classification algorithm (?SRTex?) to the general problem of the determination of high?spatial resolution cloud-amount and cloud-type ...

Abstract: Historically most soil moisture?land surface impact studies have focused on continents because of the important forecasting and climate implications involved. For a relatively small isolated mountainous landmass in the ...

Abstract: Bayesian methods are used to develop a cloud mask classification algorithm for use in an operational sea surface temperature (SST) retrieval processing system for Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) local area ...