In this set you will find
the monthly mean zonal wind components at Singapore for every year from 1987 to the present at the levels 100 (since 1997), 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 45, 40, 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 12, and 10 - hPa (singapore.dat).
Figure 1: Time - height section of
monthly mean zonal winds (m / s) at equatorial stations: Canton Island, 3 ° S / 172 ° W (Jan 1953 - Aug 1967), Gan / Maledive Islands, 1 ° S / 73 ° E (Sep 1967 - Dec 1975) and Singapore, 1 ° N / 104 ° E (since Jan 1976).
From these daily values
the monthly mean zonal wind components were calculated for the levels 70, 50, 40, 30, 20, 15, and 10 hPa and a data set from 1953 to the present was produced by combining the observations of the three radiosonde stations Canton Island (closed 1967), Gan / Maledive Islands (closed 1975), and Singapore (data file: qbo.dat).
However, another source of uncertainty in
the monthly mean zonal cloud radiative effects comes from the low frequency of clear - sky occurrence, when averaging over regions that correspond to the spatial resolution of general circulation models.
Not exact matches
Take the last sentence of the post, «Such latitudinal profiles of
zonal means are analogous to comparing
mean values of different sample sizes (a bit like comparing daily values to
monthly and annual
means).
«Such latitudinal profiles of
zonal means are analogous to comparing
mean values of different sample sizes (a bit like comparing daily values to
monthly and annual
means).
Ryan Maue, I have found that I can, by brute force, get
zonal atmospheric water vapor trends using the graphic displays at the RSS website here: http://www.remss.com/idx/ion - The displays at that link can be made to show
zonal regions of a selected width for longitude and height for latitude that give a
monthly mean for that area of the globe in the graphic caption.
Monthly mean equatorial
zonal winds in the stratosphere as a function of time and height.