Articles | Volume 7, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-3813-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-3813-2014
Research article
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19 Nov 2014
Research article |  | 19 Nov 2014

Quantifying the value of redundant measurements at GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network sites

F. Madonna, M. Rosoldi, J. Güldner, A. Haefele, R. Kivi, M. P. Cadeddu, D. Sisterson, and G. Pappalardo

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The paper provides the community with criteria to quantify the value of complementary climate measurements and to assess how the uncertainty in a measurement of an ECV is reduced by measurement complementarity. The study demonstrates the potential of entropy and mutual correlation, defined in information theory as metrics for quantifying synergies, and shows that the random uncertainties of a single instrument time series of TCWV can be strongly reduced by including complementary measurements.