Use of automatic radiosonde launchers to measure temperature and humidity profiles from the GRUAN perspective

Madonna, Fabio; Kivi, Rigel; Dupont, Jean-Charles; Ingleby, Bruce; Fujiwara, Masatomo; Romanens, Gonzague; Hernandez, Miguel; Calbet, Xavier; Rosoldi, Marco; Giunta, Aldo; Karppinen, Tomi; Iwabuchi, Masami; Hoshino, Shunsuke; von Rohden, Christoph; Thorne, Peter William

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3621-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3621-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3621-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 7

Research article

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08 Jul 2020

Research article |

| 08 Jul 2020

Use of automatic radiosonde launchers to measure temperature and humidity profiles from the GRUAN perspective

Fabio Madonna, Rigel Kivi, Jean-Charles Dupont, Bruce Ingleby, Masatomo Fujiwara, Gonzague Romanens, Miguel Hernandez, Xavier Calbet, Marco Rosoldi, Aldo Giunta, Tomi Karppinen, Masami Iwabuchi, Shunsuke Hoshino, Christoph von Rohden, and Peter William Thorne

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

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RC1: 'General Comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Mar 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to the General comment by the Rewiever #1', Fabio Madonna, 05 May 2020
RC2: 'Technical corrections', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Mar 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to the technical corrections by the Rewiever #1', Fabio Madonna, 10 Apr 2020
RC3: 'Review of Madonna et al. 2020', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Apr 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to the technical corrections by the Rewiever #2', Fabio Madonna, 30 Apr 2020

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

AR by Fabio Madonna on behalf of the Authors (08 May 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (12 Jun 2020) by Karin Kreher

AR by Fabio Madonna on behalf of the Authors (12 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Radiosondes are one of the primary sources of upper-air data for weather and climate monitoring. In the last two decades, technological progress made available automated radiosonde launchers (ARLs), which are able to replace measurements typically performed manually. This work presents a comparative analysis of the technical performance of the ARLs currently available on the market and contribute to define a strategy to achieve the full traceability of the ARL products.