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Long-term estimates of parameters of the vertical distribution of cloud layers from atmospheric radiosounding data

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Based on the global aerological dataset and on the method for determination of the boundaries and amount of cloudiness using the profiles of temperature and humidity obtained from the atmospheric radiosounding data [23], the estimates are computed for the parameters of atmospheric temperature- humidity separation into cloud and intercloud layers from the surface to the height of 10 km. The base and top of cloud layers and their total thickness and frequency are selected as layering parameters. The computations are based on the data for the observational period of 1964-1998. To specify the spatiotemporal features of atmospheric layering, long-term geographic distributions of mean values and standard deviations of the mentioned parameters are constructed for January and July, and the amplitude of their variations is determined.

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Original Russian Text © I.V. Chernykh, O.A. Aldukhov, 2016, published in Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2016, No. 4, pp. 5–17.

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Chernykh, I.V., Aldukhov, O.A. Long-term estimates of parameters of the vertical distribution of cloud layers from atmospheric radiosounding data. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 41, 229–239 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373916040014

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