Using HIRS Observations to Construct Long-Term Global Temperature and Water Vapor Profile Time Series
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Previous work has generated a time series of cloud-cleared dataset at the HIRS original swath resolution (Jackson and Bates, 2001). Using an inter-satellite calibrated version of the dataset, Bates and Jackson (2001) and Bates et al. (2001) examined the variability of upper tropospheric humidity. These studies showed that while the inter-annual variability of spatial fields was dominated by the major El Niño events, the upper tropospheric humidity exhibited more prominent seasonal variation.
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