Intercomparison of GPS radiosonde soundings during the eastern tropical Indian Ocean experiment

XIE Qiang; HUANG Ke; WANG Dongxiao; YANG Lei; CHEN Ju; WU Zewen; LI Daning; LIANG Zhiyan

doi:10.1007/s13131-014-0422-9

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XIE Qiang, HUANG Ke, WANG Dongxiao, YANG Lei, CHEN Ju, WU Zewen, LI Daning, LIANG Zhiyan. Intercomparison of GPS radiosonde soundings during the eastern tropical Indian Ocean experiment[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(1): 127-134. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0422-9

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XIE Qiang, HUANG Ke, WANG Dongxiao, YANG Lei, CHEN Ju, WU Zewen, LI Daning, LIANG Zhiyan. Intercomparison of GPS radiosonde soundings during the eastern tropical Indian Ocean experiment[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(1): 127-134. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0422-9

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XIE Qiang, HUANG Ke, WANG Dongxiao, YANG Lei, CHEN Ju, WU Zewen, LI Daning, LIANG Zhiyan. Intercomparison of GPS radiosonde soundings during the eastern tropical Indian Ocean experiment[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(1): 127-134. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0422-9

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Intercomparison of GPS radiosonde soundings during the eastern tropical Indian Ocean experiment

doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0422-9

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State Key Laboratory of Tropic Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China;Sanya Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572099, China
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State Key Laboratory of Tropic Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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State Key Laboratory of Tropic Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
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State Key Laboratory of Tropic Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China;Xisha and Nansha Abyssal Marine Environmental Research Station, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
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Guangzhou Meteorological Observatory, Guangzhou 510080, China

Received Date: 2013-03-26
Rev Recd Date: 2013-08-29

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Abstract

Temperature and relative humidity profiles derived from two China-made global positioning system (GPS) radiosondes (GPS-TK and CF-06-A) during the east tropical Indian Ocean (ETIO) experiment were compared with Vaisala RS92-SGP to assess the performances of China-made radiosondes over the tropical ocean. The results show that there have relative large biases in temperature observations between the GPSTK and the RS92-SGP in the low troposphere, with a warmbias of greater than 2 K in the day and a cooling bias of 0.6 K at night. The temperature differences of the CF-06-A were small in the troposphere both in daytime and nighttime, and became large peak-to-peak fluctuations in the stratosphere. The intercomparison of the relative humidity showed that the CF-06-A had large random errors due to the limitation of sensors and the lack of correction scheme, and the GPS-TK had large systematic biases in the low troposphere which might be related to the temperature impact. GPS height measurements are clearly suitable for China-made radiosonde systems operation. At night, the CF-06-A and the GPS-TK could provide virtual potential temperature and atmospheric boundary layer height measurements of suitable quality for both weather and climate research. As a result of the intercomparison experiment, major errors in the Chinamade radiosonde systems were well indentified and subsequently rectified to ensure improving accuracy for historical and future radiosondes.
- global positioning systemradiosonde,
- temperature and relative humidity profile,
- systematic bias,
- randomerror,
- tropical ocean

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