Sentences with phrase «provided radiosonde measurements»
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Although there is no possibility of a calibration standard for global temperature, the MSU (i.e. RSS and UAH) measurements are almost global in coverage and the radiosondes provide independent measurements for comparison.
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Temperature measurements retrieved from the hundreds of balloon - borne radiosonde instruments that are released each day by the various national weather services provide much more detailed information on the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature changes than is available from satellites.
The radiosondes would provide a check for accuracy / drift of the satellite measurements over time and to provide a solid overlap when calibrating a new satellite or instrument..