Evaluation of Windsond S1H2 performance in Kumasi during the 2016 DACCIWA field campaign

Bessardon, Geoffrey Elie Quentin; Fosu-Amankwah, Kwabena; Petersson, Anders; Brooks, Barbara Jane

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1311-2019

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Evaluation of Windsond S1H2 performance in Kumasi during the 2016 DACCIWA field campaign

Geoffrey Elie Quentin Bessardon, Kwabena Fosu-Amankwah, Anders Petersson, and Barbara Jane Brooks

Data sets

DACCIWA field campaign, Kumasi super-site, Instrumentation B. J. Brooks https://doi.org/10.6096/dacciwa.1663

Short summary

This paper presents the first performance assessment during a field campaign of a new reusable radiosonde: the Windsond S1H2. The reuse feature of the S1H2 requires evaluation of the data alteration due to sonde reuse in addition to performance and reproducibility assessments. A comparison with the Vaisala RS41-SG, a well-proven system, shows the potential of the S1H2, with no major performance degradation arising from S1H2 sonde reuse but shows the need for improving the S1H2 GPS system.