On the spatio-temporal representativeness of observations

The discontinuous spatio-temporal sampling of observations has an impact when using them to construct climatologies or evaluate models. Here we provide estimates of this so-called representation error for a range of timescales and length scales (semi-annually down to sub-daily, 300 to 50 km) and...

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Main Authors: N. Schutgens, S. Tsyro, E. Gryspeerdt, D. Goto, N. Weigum, M. Schulz, P. Stier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-08-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/9761/2017/acp-17-9761-2017.pdf