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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-421-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-421-2015
Research article
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27 Jan 2015
Research article |  | 27 Jan 2015

The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) sounding network: operations, processing and analysis

M. P. Jensen, T. Toto, D. Troyan, P. E. Ciesielski, D. Holdridge, J. Kyrouac, J. Schatz, Y. Zhang, and S. Xie

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A major component of the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) was a six-site radiosonde array designed to capture the large-scale variability of the atmospheric state. This manuscript describes the details of the MC3E radiosonde operations including the instrumentation, data processing and analysis of the impacts of bias correction and algorithm assumptions on the determination of forcing data sets.