Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6445-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6445-2020
Research article
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01 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 01 Dec 2020

Interpolation uncertainty of atmospheric temperature profiles

Alessandro Fassò, Michael Sommer, and Christoph von Rohden

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Short summary
Modern radiosonde balloons fly from ground level up to the lower stratosphere and take temperature measurements. What is the uncertainty of interpolated values in the resulting atmospheric temperature profiles? To answer this question, we introduce a general statistical–mathematical model for the computation of interpolation uncertainty. Analysing more than 51 million measurements, we provide some understanding of the consequences of filling missing data with interpolated ones.