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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4215-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4215-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4215-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 10

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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RC C1556: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Jun 2015
- AC C1559: 'Reply to anonymous Referee 1', Gionata Biavati, 15 Jun 2015
RC C1569: 'Estimation on uncertainty of a local property', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Jun 2015
- AC C2423: 'Reply to anonymous Referee 2', Gionata Biavati, 04 Aug 2015

Short summary

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.