Publication Date:
2019-06-28
Description:
Comparison between in situ aircraft observations of temperature and National Meteorological Center and Global Weather Central analysis fields of temperature is presented for a continental and oceanic flight route. The standard deviations of the temperature differences over several hundred flights are found to be 2.5 and 3.5 C for the continental and oceanic route, respectively. A bias towards warm temperatures of about 0.85 C for the analysis fields was found for the oceanic route. Only small differences are found between the NMC and GWC analysis field temperatures.
Keywords:
METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
Type:
Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology (ISSN 0733-3021); 23; 1421-142
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