Sentences with phrase «longer radiosonde records»

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The long - term NOAA record of tropospheric humidity from radiosondes and satellites shows that water vapor content (specific humidity) has decreased with warming.

Within the community that constructs and actively analyses satellite - and radiosonde - based temperature records there is agreement that the uncertainties about long - term change are substantial.

The satellite records have the advantage of global coverage, whereas the radiosonde record is longer.

Prior to 1988, the satellite data that Trenberth uses is not available, but it is known that long term records in radiosondes contain large inhomogeneities due to improving observing systems, increasing spatial resolution (but still very little ocean coverage), and the NCEP data in particular contains large model biases.