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Merged Sounding Value-Added Product.


DE2010973815

Publication Date 2010
Personal Author Troyan, D.
Page Count 13
Abstract The Merged Sounding value-added product (VAP) uses a combination of observations from radiosonde soundings, the microwave radiometer (MWR), surface meteorological instruments, and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) model output with a sophisticated scaling/interpolation/smoothing scheme in order to define profiles of the atmospheric thermodynamic state at one-minute temporal intervals and a total of 266 altitude levels.
Keywords
  • Radiometers
  • Atmospheric sounding
  • Altitude
  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Data processing
  • Radiation detectors
  • Thermodynamics
  • Weather forecasting
Source Agency
  • Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
Corporate Authors Department of Energy, Washington, DC. Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program.; Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Supplemental Notes Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
Document Type Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number 201021
Merged Sounding Value-Added Product.
Merged Sounding Value-Added Product.
DE2010973815

  • Radiometers
  • Atmospheric sounding
  • Altitude
  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Data processing
  • Radiation detectors
  • Thermodynamics
  • Weather forecasting
  • Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee
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