A semiempirical error estimation technique for PWV derived from atmospheric radiosonde data

Castro-Almazán, Julio A.; Pérez-Jordán, Gabriel; Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4759-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4759-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4759-2016

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

Articles | Volume 9, issue 9

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26 Sep 2016

Research article |

| 26 Sep 2016

A semiempirical error estimation technique for PWV derived from atmospheric radiosonde data

Julio A. Castro-Almazán, Gabriel Pérez-Jordán, and Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón

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RC1: 'Review of "A semi-empirical error estimation for PWV derived from atmospheric radiosonde data at the Canary Islands"', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Mar 2016
RC2: 'Review of ‘A semi-empirical error estimation for PWV derived from atmospheric radiosonde data at the Canary Islands.’ By Julio A. Castro-Almazán et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Mar 2016
AC1: 'Response to the referees', Julio A. Castro-Almazán, 28 Jun 2016

Short summary

Water vapour is the main responsible for the atmospheric extinction in astronomical observations in different bands. One of the most common and accurate techniques to measure it are the radiosoundings. A method to estimate the error and the optimum number of sampled levels is proposed, considering the uncertainties and the leakage in sampling, based on data from Roque de los Muchachos Observ. and Guimar (Canary Is., Spain), Lindenberg (Germany) and Ny-Ålesund (Norway). The median error is 2.0 %.