Impact of Bias in the Marine Air Temperature Observation Set on Atmospheric Reanalyses

• Main Author: Akella, Santharam
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Meteorology and Climatology; Dy; Merra; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20200001046

Marine air temperature observations are collected by volunteer observing ships carrying automatic meteorological sensor packages. Close proximity of the package mount to a dark colored ship's deck is known to introduce a warm bias on sunny afternoons in summer under low wind conditions. This ob...