Early ship-based upper-air data and comparison with the Twentieth Century Reanalysis

• Main Authors: Brönnimann, Stefan, Compo, Gilbert P., Spadin, R., Allan, Rob, Adam, Wolfgang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus 2011
• Subjects: Endeavour; Indian; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/34285; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000034285

Extension of 3-D atmospheric data products back into the past is desirable for a wide range of applications. Historical upper-air data are important in this endeavour, particularly in the maritime regions of the tropics and the southern hemisphere, where observations are extremely sparse. Here we pr...