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
Subjects:	QD1-999 Chemistry
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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
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level	Doctorate
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
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publishDate	2018
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Empirical Models For Estimating Precipitable Water Using Advanced Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Satellite Data Over Peninsular Malaysia

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