Articles | Volume 9, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1613-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-1613-2016
Research article
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12 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 12 Apr 2016

Evaluation of two Vaisala RS92 radiosonde solar radiative dry bias correction algorithms

Andrew M. Dzambo, David D. Turner, and Eli J. Mlawer

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Radiosondes are used to characterize the humidity in the middle and upper troposphere, but suffer from a solar radiation induced dry bias. This work investigates the accuracy of two published correction algorithms using comparisons with other instruments.
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