We present an automated algorithm for testing surface broadband radiation measurements to detect erroneous data. The methodology has been developed using data from the US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program. The testing includes physically possible limits as determined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Baseline Surface Radiation Network, as well as ...

A common bias among global climate models (GCMs) is that they exhibit tropospheric southern annular mode (SAM) variability that is much too persistent in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) summertime. This is of concern for the ability to accurately predict future SH circulation changes, so it is important that it be understood and alleviated. In this two-part study, specifically targeted experiments...

A new method of identifying anomalous oceanic temperature and salinity (T/S) data from Argo profiling floats is proposed. The proposed method uses World Ocean Database 2013 climatology to classify good against anomalous data by using convex hulls. An n-sided polygon (convex hull) with least area encompassing all the climatological points is constructed using Jarvis March algorithm. Subsequently...

Ten years of rocketsonde observations of wind and temperature in the 28-57 km height range at 12 stations (spanning 8øS to 76øN) were analyzed. The aim was to determine the geographical and seasonal variation of statistics relating to the propagation of inertia-gravity waves. As noted by earlier investigators, there is a clear tendency for the rocketsonde hodographs to display clockwise rotatio...

Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CMSAF) data have been studied in the Czech Republic for approximately 10 years. Initially, validation studies were conducted, particularly regarding the incoming solar radiation product and cloudiness data. The main focus of these studies was the surface incoming shortwave (SIS) radiation data. This paper first briefly describes the validati...

Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures ◭ ◮ ◭ ◮ Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures ◭ ◮ ◭ ◮ Back Close Full Screen / Esc Abstract The problem of estimating the salinity when only temperature profiles are available is having an increasing interest mainly because of multi-parametric data assimilation in ocean forecasting models. In t...

[1] A discrete set of climatological patterns of high‐latitude ionospheric convection are derived using line‐of‐sight plasma drift data from the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN). The patterns are derived independently for the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere and for varying solar wind, interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), and dipole tilt angle conditions. By interpolating...

Abs t rac t -Ground surface temperature histories (GSTHs) inferred from borehole temperaturedepth (T-z) data are often degraded, to a various extent, by random or systematic noise in the T-z data and in the measurements of thermophysical properties of the earth. To minimize the effects of noise, and hence improve the fidelity of the inferred GSTH, a plausible approach is to perform a simultaneo...

The various forces which affect the height of the sea' and the response of the sea to these forces are reviewed. An attempt to clarify the interactions among the astronomical, climatological, and meteorological forces involved, reveals that the response to any given force varies from one part of the sea to another, and that a complete separation of the effects produced by the various forces is ...