By means of ERA-40, JRA-25, NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE reanalysis data, empirical relations between precipitable water and surface vapor pressure in spatial and temporal scale were calculated. The reliabilities of precipi...By means of ERA-40, JRA-25, NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE reanalysis data, empirical relations between precipitable water and surface vapor pressure in spatial and temporal scale were calculated. The reliabilities of precipitable water from reanalysis data were validated based on comparing different W-e empirical relations of various reanalysis data, in order to provide basis and reference for reasonable application. The results showed that W-e empirical relation of ERA-40 was closest to that of sounding data in China, and precipitable water from ERA-40 was the most credible. The worldwide comparison among W-e empirical relations of four reanalysis data showed that there was little difference in annual mean W-e empirical relations in the middle latitudes and great differences in low and high latitudes. Seasonal mean W-e empirical relations in the middle latitudes of the northern Hemisphere had little difference in spring, autumn and winter, but great difference in summer. Therefore, the reliabilities of precipitable water from reanalysis data in spring, autumn and winter in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere were higher than other areas and seasons. W-e empirical relations of NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE had good stability in different years, while there was poor stability in ERA-40 and JRA-25.展开更多
Concordance study between two laboratories testing clinical samples is important to a clinical program to assess the comparability of test results, especially when the two laboratories performed the same test at diffe...Concordance study between two laboratories testing clinical samples is important to a clinical program to assess the comparability of test results, especially when the two laboratories performed the same test at different locations. Assays that measure immune response should not be compared using the simple linear regression model; instead literature publications recommend an "errors-in-variables" model that accounts for the variability in these assays (Home, 1998). In this paper, concordance slope and intercept was estimated using the statistical linear relationship (Tan and Iglewicz, 1999) for various tests between laboratories. The confidence bounds for the concordance line were used to assess the impact on vaccine booster thresholds when a consistent bias was observed between the results generated by two laboratories.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (40775048)Major State Basic Research Development Program (2006CB400504)National Key Technology R & D Program (2007BAC294)
文摘By means of ERA-40, JRA-25, NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE reanalysis data, empirical relations between precipitable water and surface vapor pressure in spatial and temporal scale were calculated. The reliabilities of precipitable water from reanalysis data were validated based on comparing different W-e empirical relations of various reanalysis data, in order to provide basis and reference for reasonable application. The results showed that W-e empirical relation of ERA-40 was closest to that of sounding data in China, and precipitable water from ERA-40 was the most credible. The worldwide comparison among W-e empirical relations of four reanalysis data showed that there was little difference in annual mean W-e empirical relations in the middle latitudes and great differences in low and high latitudes. Seasonal mean W-e empirical relations in the middle latitudes of the northern Hemisphere had little difference in spring, autumn and winter, but great difference in summer. Therefore, the reliabilities of precipitable water from reanalysis data in spring, autumn and winter in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere were higher than other areas and seasons. W-e empirical relations of NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE had good stability in different years, while there was poor stability in ERA-40 and JRA-25.
文摘Concordance study between two laboratories testing clinical samples is important to a clinical program to assess the comparability of test results, especially when the two laboratories performed the same test at different locations. Assays that measure immune response should not be compared using the simple linear regression model; instead literature publications recommend an "errors-in-variables" model that accounts for the variability in these assays (Home, 1998). In this paper, concordance slope and intercept was estimated using the statistical linear relationship (Tan and Iglewicz, 1999) for various tests between laboratories. The confidence bounds for the concordance line were used to assess the impact on vaccine booster thresholds when a consistent bias was observed between the results generated by two laboratories.