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QUARC - Quantifying Uncertainty in Adjusted Radiosonde Climate records

QUARC is an automatic radiosonde homogenisation system that has been used to produce ensembles of radiosonde temperature datasets. It uses a neighbour based, iterative approach similar to the manual method employed in HadAT (the Hadley Centre gridded radiosonde temperature product). Each dataset realisation has been created by using a different set of system parameter settings to within reasonable bounds. These system settings reflect different plausible assumptions that could be made in the development of a climate quality radiosonde dataset. The results can be used to investigate uncertainties in long term radiosonde temperatures.

Brief description of the data

This website contains summary files for the experiments used within the paper (see references below). These summaries include long term trends that were estimated from each experiment. They are currently only available for a subset of the experiments carried out and only through a password protected area. Please contact us if you require access to these data.

	Data will be made available later this year upon publication of the paper. If you would like to use the data prior to this then please contact Holly Titchner and read the terms and conditions. You do not have to register, but it will help us if you do.

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References

When using the data set in a paper, the following is the correct citation to use:

McCarthy, M. P., H. A. Titchner, P. W. T. Thorne, S. F. B. Tett, L. Haimberger and D. E. Parker, 2007
Assessing bias and uncertainty in the HadAT adjusted radiosonde climate record
Submitted to Journal of Climate

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