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During MONEX-79 (from May to July 1979), water vapour observations were made, remotely, from the Tiros-N satellite and, directly, from drop-sondes and up-sondes, respectively released from aircraft and ships. From these data, and dew-point temperatures acquired from the sondes, values for water vapour were calculated and compared for three separate pressure levels, the spatial separation between sub-satellite and sub-sonde positions being limited to 1° in latitude and longitude, and the temporal separation between measurements that were compared being restricted to not more than 5 hours. The analysis demonstrated an excellent agreement between the satellite-derived and directly-measured data, with correlation coefficients of + 0.98 in both cases.
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Pathak, P.N. (1983). Comparison of Water Vapour Data from Monex-79 and the Tiros-N Satellite. In: Street-Perrott, A., Beran, M., Ratcliffe, R. (eds) Variations in the Global Water Budget. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6954-4_5
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