Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2323-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2323-2017
Research article
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27 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 27 Jun 2017

Consistency between GRUAN sondes, LBLRTM and IASI

Xavier Calbet, Niobe Peinado-Galan, Pilar Rípodas, Tim Trent, Ruud Dirksen, and Michael Sommer

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GRUAN temperature and water vapour radiosonde measurements are shown to be consistent with infrared hyperspectral measurements from IASI using LBLRTM as a reference radiative transfer model. Long-term climate data records of temperature and water vapour can be derived from radiosonde measurements and from space-based instruments. In order to have accurate and homogeneously useful data series, it is a critical necessary condition that these data sets be consistent with each other.