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Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia

Precipitable water (PW) is a highly variable, but important greenhouse gas that regulates the radiation budget of the earth. Adequate knowledge on its distribution, in space and time, is required for a better description and understanding of weather and global climate. The few existing studies in...

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Main Author: Kaura, Makama Ezekiel
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2018
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QD1-999 Chemistry
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spelling my.usm.eprints.48313 http://eprints.usm.my/48313/ Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia Kaura, Makama Ezekiel QD1-999 Chemistry Precipitable water (PW) is a highly variable, but important greenhouse gas that regulates the radiation budget of the earth. Adequate knowledge on its distribution, in space and time, is required for a better description and understanding of weather and global climate. The few existing studies in Peninsular Malaysia utilized in situ data to estimate TPW, with the consequences of oversimplifying the situation by masking the effects of local circulation and topographical difference, which are considered important in small scale weather studies. Also, the use of single meteorological parameter to estimate TPW usually undermines other parameters that may have combined effect on the column water vapour. New models based on multiple linear regression (MLR) to estimate TPW have, therefore, been proposed using homogenized climate data records derived from ATOVS onboard NOAA along with surface observations for the period 2001 – 2011. ATOVS data agreed well with radiosonde measurements, both spatially and seasonally, with correlation coefficients ( 2018-09 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/48313/1/MAKAMA%20EZEKIEL%20KAURA_hj.pdf Kaura, Makama Ezekiel (2018) Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Kaura, Makama Ezekiel
Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia
description Precipitable water (PW) is a highly variable, but important greenhouse gas that regulates the radiation budget of the earth. Adequate knowledge on its distribution, in space and time, is required for a better description and understanding of weather and global climate. The few existing studies in Peninsular Malaysia utilized in situ data to estimate TPW, with the consequences of oversimplifying the situation by masking the effects of local circulation and topographical difference, which are considered important in small scale weather studies. Also, the use of single meteorological parameter to estimate TPW usually undermines other parameters that may have combined effect on the column water vapour. New models based on multiple linear regression (MLR) to estimate TPW have, therefore, been proposed using homogenized climate data records derived from ATOVS onboard NOAA along with surface observations for the period 2001 – 2011. ATOVS data agreed well with radiosonde measurements, both spatially and seasonally, with correlation coefficients (
format Thesis
author Kaura, Makama Ezekiel
author_facet Kaura, Makama Ezekiel
author_sort Kaura, Makama Ezekiel
title Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia
title_short Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia
title_full Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia
title_fullStr Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia
title_sort empirical models for estimating precipitable water using advanced tiros operational vertical sounder satellite data over peninsular malaysia
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.usm.my/48313/1/MAKAMA%20EZEKIEL%20KAURA_hj.pdf
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