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The resultant time series is a unique, long-term dataset (1978\u20132017). To validate this long-term dataset, evaluation of the stability of the intersatellite time series is coupled with intercomparisons with independent observation platforms as available in more recent years. Eleven pairs of satellites carrying the HIRS instrument with time periods that overlap are examined. Correlation coefficients were calculated for the retrieval of each atmospheric pressure level and for each satellite pair. More than 90% of the cases examining both temperature and humidity have correlation coefficients greater than 0.7. Very high correlation is demonstrated at the surface and two meter levels for both temperature (&gt;0.99) and specific humidity (&gt;0.93). For the period of 2006\u20132017, intercomparisons are performed with four independent observations platforms: radiosonde (RS92), constellation observing system for meteorology ionosphere and climate (COSMIC), global climate observing system (GCOS) reference upper-air network (GRUAN), and infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer (IASI). Very close matching of surface and two meter temperatures over a wide domain of values is depicted in all presented intercomparisons: intersatellite matches of HIRS retrievals, HIRS vs. GRUAN, and HIRS vs. IASI.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11070853","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,9]],"date-time":"2019-04-09T05:58:07Z","timestamp":1554789487000},"page":"853","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Intercomparisons of Long-Term Atmospheric Temperature and Humidity Profile Retrievals"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6968-3474","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jessica L.","family":"Matthews","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"North Carolina State University, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites\u2014North Carolina (CICS-NC), 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2297-3079","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lei","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NOAA\u2019s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"128","DOI":"10.1175\/1520-0450(1985)024<0128:TIIIMA>2.0.CO;2","article-title":"The Improved Initialization Inversion Method\u2014A high-resolution physical method for temperature retrievals from satellites of the Tiros-N series","volume":"24","author":"Chedin","year":"1985","journal-title":"J. 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