Consistency between GRUAN sondes, LBLRTM and IASI

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2323-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 2323–2335, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2323-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 2323–2335, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2323-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article 27 Jun 2017

Research article | 27 Jun 2017

Consistency between GRUAN sondes, LBLRTM and IASI

Xavier Calbet et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 27 Jun 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 03 Nov 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of "Consistency between GRUAN sondes, LBLRTM and IASI" by Calbet et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Dec 2016
RC2: 'Review of Calbet et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Feb 2017
AC1: 'Answers to Referees', Xavier Calbet, 24 Mar 2017

Short summary

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.