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On the use of routine airborne observations for evaluation and monitoring of satellite observations of thermodynamic profiles
Timothy J. Wagner
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States of America
Thomas August
EUMETSAT, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany
Tim Hultberg
EUMETSAT, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany
Ralph A. Petersen
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States of America
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Short summary
Commercial passenger and freight aircraft need to know the temperature and pressure of the environments they fly through in order to safely operate. In this paper, we investigate how these observations can be used to evaluate and monitor the performance of satellite observations. Normally weather balloons are used for this, but in places like the United States there are many more airplane flights than weather balloon launches. This makes it much easier to compare them to satellites.
Commercial passenger and freight aircraft need to know the temperature and pressure of the...