Statistics
Scientific paper
Apr 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001angeo..19..459h&link_type=abstract
Annales Geophysicae, vol. 19, Issue 4, pp.459-468
Statistics
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Scientific paper
The ‘statistically optimal’ approach to smoothing bending angles derived from radio occultation (RO) measurements is outlined. This combines a measured bending angle profile with an a priori or background estimate derived from climatology, in order to obtain the most probable bending angle profile. However, the method is only optimal if the error statistics of both the measured and background profiles are known and applied accurately. In this work it is shown that correlations in the background estimate have a significant role in determining the degree of smoothing in the solution. We find that smooth profiles, consistent with the measured values, can be derived if the correlations are approximated analytically with a Gaussian, assuming a scale length of 6km. In regions where the observed and background error levels are comparable, the solutions take the general shape from the background estimate, centred on the observation data. The effects of correlated observation errors are also considered. It is shown that the quality of the temperature retrievals can be significantly affected by the choice of climatology used for background estimate.
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