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Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-1-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-1-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
Research article
 | 
03 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 03 Jan 2024

On the use of routine airborne observations for evaluation and monitoring of satellite observations of thermodynamic profiles

Timothy J. Wagner, Thomas August, Tim Hultberg, and Ralph A. Petersen

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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.
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