CONVENTIONS on bias

Extract RHARM data from local database

Extract CUON data from local database

Extract SUNY data from local database

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I attach one two-panel plot for each of them. In the top plot there is the 12GMT-00GMT difference calculated for each pair of sondes available in the same day at each station. Average statistics are also reported for the entire period (2009-2010) along the x-axis.

In the bottom panel, I report the adjustments applied in the same period. You may notice that the latter may appear as black rectangles sometime, but this is due to the fact that we have constant but different adjustments for night and day.

As you can see for one station (70350) no adjustment are applied in the 2009-2010 (actually should be related to RS80 sondes and this goes back to other examples shown in my talk in Rome).

However, I investigate also the entire time series, I found the applied adjustment quite coherent with the RHARM/IGRA metadata.

As you can see the 12GMT-00GMT differences averaged over the entire time series are around zero. Actually with almost constant adjustments, by subtracting monthly means for day and night we should have small residual. To clarify: did you calculate monthly means for day and night over the entire time series or just for the 2009-2010 as I did?

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