This project is joint work with Dr. Jay Ligatti, and I am extremely grateful to him for his inspirational guidance through every stage of the project. This thesis derives from an

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An optimum interpolation scheme which interpolates temperature measurements to a specified mesoscale network of gridpoints is proposed. The analysis incorporates conventional synoptic-scale radiosonde observation at 002 for thirty-one consecutive days in May 1976 and VTPR satellite-derived temperatures for a particular case study day. Structure functions were determined from the statistical nature of the 700 mb, 500 mb, and 300 mb temperature fields for this period. From these meteorological field samples, normalized auto-correlation and normalized mutual-correlation functions for the RAOB's and sate1 1 i te-retrieved temperatures were calculated assuming general isotropic and homogeneous condi ti ons over the region. Root-mean square instrumentation errors were estimated by fitting the unnormalized structure function to a linear regression curve to find the zero distance intercept. Applying the smoothed correlation functions, the mutual correlation functions, and the instrumentation errors to a simultaneous set of a1 gebrai c equations, the associated RAOB and sate1 1 i te weighing factors for each gri dpoi nt were computed. This study matches the vertical resolution of the radiosonde data to the horizontal resolution of the satellite radiance retrievals to produce a statistically better objective analysis.

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