Comparison of Vaisala radiosondes RS41 and RS92 launched over the oceans from the Arctic to the tropics

Kawai, Yoshimi; Katsumata, Masaki; Oshima, Kazuhiro; Hori, Masatake E.; Inoue, Jun

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2485-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2485-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2485-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 7

Research article

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14 Jul 2017

Research article |

| 14 Jul 2017

Comparison of Vaisala radiosondes RS41 and RS92 launched over the oceans from the Arctic to the tropics

Yoshimi Kawai, Masaki Katsumata, Kazuhiro Oshima, Masatake E. Hori, and Jun Inoue

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Final revised paper (published on 14 Jul 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 29 Mar 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of "Comparison of Vaisala radiosondes RS41 and RS92 in  the oceans ranging from the Arctic to tropics "', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Mar 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee #2', Yoshimi Kawai, 25 Apr 2017
  - AC3: 'Reply to Referee #2', Yoshimi Kawai, 25 Apr 2017
RC2: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #3, 14 Apr 2017
- AC4: 'Reply to Referee #3', Yoshimi Kawai, 25 Apr 2017
RC3: 'Interactive Comment on "Comparison of Vaisala radiosondes RS41 and RS92 in the oceans ranging from the Arctic to tropics" by Yoshimi Kawai et al., 2017', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Apr 2017
- AC6: 'Reply to Referee #1', Yoshimi Kawai, 09 May 2017
AC1: 'Manuscript revised', Yoshimi Kawai, 25 Apr 2017
AC5: 'Manuscript revised ver.2', Yoshimi Kawai, 09 May 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Yoshimi Kawai on behalf of the Authors (31 May 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (05 Jun 2017) by Joanna Joiner

AR by Yoshimi Kawai on behalf of the Authors (09 Jun 2017)

Short summary

The model RS92 radiosonde manufactured by Vaisala Ltd. is now being replaced with a successor model, the RS41, and we need to clarify accuracy differences between them for a variety of research. For this purpose, 36 twin-radiosonde flights were performed over the oceans from the Arctic to the tropics. Basically the differences between the RS41 and RS92 were smaller than the nominal combined uncertainties of the RS41; however, we found non-negligible biases in relative humidity and pressure.