Comparison of the GRUAN data products for Meisei RS-11G and Vaisala RS92-SGP radiosondes at Tateno (36.06°&thinsp;N, 140.13°&thinsp;E), Japan

Kobayashi, Eriko; Hoshino, Shunsuke; Iwabuchi, Masami; Sugidachi, Takuji; Shimizu, Kensaku; Fujiwara, Masatomo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3039-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3039-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3039-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 6

Research article

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04 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 04 Jun 2019

Comparison of the GRUAN data products for Meisei RS-11G and Vaisala RS92-SGP radiosondes at Tateno (36.06° N, 140.13° E), Japan

Eriko Kobayashi, Shunsuke Hoshino, Masami Iwabuchi, Takuji Sugidachi, Kensaku Shimizu, and Masatomo Fujiwara

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-3039-2019-supplement

Data sets

RS-11G GRUAN Data Product Version 1 (RS-11G-GDP.1) N. Kizu, T. Sugidachi, E. Kobayashi, S. Hoshino, K. Shimizu, R. Maeda, and M. Fujiwara https://doi.org/10.5676/GRUAN/RS-11G-GDP.1

RS92 GRUAN Data Product Version 2 (RS92-GDP.2) M. Sommer, R. Dirksen, and F. Immler https://doi.org/10.5676/GRUAN/RS92-GDP.2

Short summary

The authors carried out dual flights of RS-11G and RS92-SGP radiosondes and investigated the differences in the performance of the radiosondes to help characterize GRUAN data products. A novel aspect of GRUAN data products is that vertically resolved uncertainty estimates and metadata are provided for each sounding and comparison of GRUAN data products is important in securing the temporal homogeneity of climate data records.