Sentences with phrase «observed radiosonde data»
The QBO in WACCM4 is prescribed by relaxing equatorial zonal winds between 86 and 4 hPa to observed radiosonde data (28 - month period).
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The IPCC TAR, which you are fond of quoting, says «Discrepancies between MSU and radiosonde data have largely been resolved, although the observed trend in the difference between the surface and lower tropospheric temperatures can not fully be accounted for.»
Documentation of instrumentation and observing practices is also critical with respect to the radiosonde data.
It is of course possible that the observed humidity trends from the NCEP data are simply the result of problems with the instrumentation and operation of the global radiosonde network from which the data are derived.
If you increase [CO2], [H2O] ust decrease in the upper atmosphere, as observed in 61 years» radiosonde data.
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.