Articles | Volume 8, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4215-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4215-2015
Research article
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13 Oct 2015
Research article |  | 13 Oct 2015

Error estimation for localized signal properties: application to atmospheric mixing height retrievals

G. Biavati, D. G. Feist, C. Gerbig, and R. Kretschmer

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The goal of this work is to present a method that can be used to estimate the uncertainty for a singular estimate for the mixing height. It is defined here as the localization error. The method is based on the actual signal (radiosonde) and its measurement errors, ant it does not consider the physics causing the signal. It can be applied to all kind of signals and algorithm when standard error propagation cannot be used to asses the uncertainty of a location of a localized property.