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It is commonly estimated by a linear model that relates to surface temperature Ts. However, the linear relationship between Tm and Ts is associated with geographic regions and affected by the weather. To better estimate the Tm over China, we analyzed the region-specific and weather-dependent characteristics of this linear relationship using 860,054 radiosonde profiles from 88 Chinese stations between 2005 and 2018. The slope coefficients of site-specific linear models are 0.35~0.95, which generally reduce from northeast to southwest. Over southwest China, the slope coefficient changes drastically, while over the northwest, it shows little variation. We developed a Ts\u223cTm linear model using the data from rainless days as well as a model using the data from rainy days for each station. At half the stations, mostly located in west and north China, the differences between the rainy-day and rainless-day Tm models are significant and larger than 0.5% (1%) in mean (maximal) relative bias. The regression precisions of the rainy-day models are higher than that of the rainless-day models averagely by 28% for the stations. Radiosonde data satisfying Tm\u2212Ts&gt;10\u00a0K and Ts\u2212Tm&gt;30\u00a0K most deviate from linear regression models. Results suggest that the former situation is related to low surface temperature (&lt;270 K), as well as striking temperature and humidity inversions below 800 hPa, while the latter situation is related to high surface temperature (&gt;280 K) and a distinct humidity inversion above 600 hPa.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15061538","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,13]],"date-time":"2023-03-13T03:03:57Z","timestamp":1678676637000},"page":"1538","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Region-Specific and Weather-Dependent Characteristics of the Relation between GNSS-Weighted Mean Temperature and Surface Temperature over China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Minghua","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"Shanghai Key Laboratory of Space Navigation and Positioning Techniques, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2899-7677","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Junping","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Key Laboratory of Space Navigation and Positioning Techniques, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yize","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Key Laboratory of Space Navigation and Positioning Techniques, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4108-6766","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mengtian","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1353-9406","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Miao","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chengzhi","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"Technology Innovation Center for Integration Applications in Remote Sensing and Navigation, Ministry of Natural Resources, Nanjing 210044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tao","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"Technology Innovation Center for Integration Applications in Remote Sensing and Navigation, Ministry of Natural Resources, Nanjing 210044, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"15787","DOI":"10.1029\/92JD01517","article-title":"GPS meteorology: Remote sensing of atmospheric water vapor using the Global Positioning System","volume":"97","author":"Bevis","year":"1992","journal-title":"J. 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