Near-tropopause bias in the Russian radiosonde-observed air temperature during the YOPP special observing periods in 2018

• Published in: Polar Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Observational uncertainty; Radiosonde; Arctic challenge for sustainability; Year of polar prediction; Arctic; Baranova; Polar Science
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=16395; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00016273/

Taking advantage of a unique configuration of upper-atmospheric observing stations, we used enhanced radiosonde observations acquired during the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) at Ice Base Cape Baranova in 2018 to quantify the observational bias of a nearby station, i.e., GMO IM. E. K. Fedorova loca...