Assessment of adequate quality and collocation of reference measurements with space-borne hyperspectral infrared instruments to validate retrievals of temperature and water vapour

Calbet, X.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

Research article

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15 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 15 Jan 2016

Assessment of adequate quality and collocation of reference measurements with space-borne hyperspectral infrared instruments to validate retrievals of temperature and water vapour

X. Calbet

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RC C2490: 'Review of the X. Calbet paper', Matthias Schneider, 09 Aug 2015
RC C2498: 'Review of X. Calbet paper on retrieval validation', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Aug 2015
- AC C2851: 'Response to anonymous referee #1', Xavier Calbet, 06 Sep 2015
AC C2845: 'Response to referee Mathias Schneider', Xavier Calbet, 06 Sep 2015
AC C2853: 'Revised paper following comments from the referees', Xavier Calbet, 06 Sep 2015

Short summary

Comparison of satellite based retrieved atmospheric profiles of temperature and water vapor with other, more traditional, ground based measurements, like radiosondes, is not trivial. There are many issues, like collocation, spatial inhomogeneities of the atmospheric parameters or others, that may render the comparison of little use. In this paper a method is presented to asses if the comparison is adequate.