An Appraisal of the Progress in Utilizing Radiosondes and Satellites for Monitoring Upper Air Temperature Profiles

FM Mashao, B Demoz, Y Kifle, D Klopper, H Chikoore… - Atmosphere, 2024 - mdpi.com
Upper air temperature measurements are critical for understanding weather patterns,
boundary-layer processes, climate change, and the validation of space-based observations …

The new Radiosounding HARMonization (RHARM) data set of homogenized radiosounding temperature, humidity, and wind profiles with uncertainties

F Madonna, E Tramutola, S Sy, F Serva… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observational records are more often than not influenced by residual non‐climatic factors
which must be detected and adjusted for prior to their usage. In this work, we present a novel …

Sensitivity of trends to estimation methods and quantification of subsampling effects in global radiosounding temperature and humidity time series

S Sy, F Madonna, M Rosoldi… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate trends estimated using historical radiosounding time series may be significantly
affected by the choice of the regression method to use, as well as by a subsampling of the …

[PDF][PDF] Can reference radiosounding measurements be used to improve historical time series

F Madonna - Il Nuovo Cimento C, 2020 - gruan.org
Upper-air radiosounding observations are undoubtedly a primary data source for the study
of climate and for the atmospheric reanalysis. Nevertheless, historical radiosounding time …