During the last 15 years new concepts and ideas, developed by the international community to be introduced into the standards of high-quality systems, have been incorporated into national metrological practice. This has naturally also had an effect on the fundamental ideas of applied metrology in such a conservative field as meteorological measurements of the state of the atmosphere. Methods of harmonizing the ideas of “uniformity” and “traceability” are illustrated using the example of measurements of the temperature of the atmosphere.
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Translated from Izmeritel’naya Tekhnika, No. 11, pp. 30–35, November, 2011.
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Chuiko, V.G. The traceability of temperature measurements in aerological radiosonde observations. Meas Tech 54, 1256–1263 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11018-012-9882-5
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