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Stereo Height Errors


Summary of Overpasses of Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) sites
  Total # of
passes
# of passes
with Raw Winds
# of passes
with Best Winds
# of passes
with good ARM data
# of Clear scenes
Barrow 306 285 (81%) 132 (37%) 214 (70%) 45 (21%)
Southern Great Plains (SGP) 264 263 (97%) 160 (59%) 224 (85%) 89 (40%)
Nauru 152 131 (86%) 61 (40%) 61 (40%) 13 (21%)


Radar - MISR Cloud Top Height comparisons
  # vs. possible mean
difference (m)
median
difference (m)
standard
deviation (m)
Barrow (BestWinds) 23 of 113 104.0 226.2 613.4
Barrow (RawWinds) 57 of 113 8.0 154.6 767.5
SGP (BestWinds) 59 of 123 19.0 101.2 740.5
SGP (RawWinds) 95 of 123 12.0 129.0 979.7
Nauru (BestWinds) 05 of 29 188.0 268.4 344.7
Nauru (RawWinds) 17 of 29 10.0 -43.8 898.5

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