Articles | Volume 18, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2919-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2919-2025
Research article
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07 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 07 Jul 2025

Justification for high-ascent attainment for balloon radiosonde soundings at GRUAN and other sites

Masatomo Fujiwara, Bomin Sun, Anthony Reale, Domenico Cimini, Salvatore Larosa, Lori Borg, Christoph von Rohden, Michael Sommer, Ruud Dirksen, Marion Maturilli, Holger Vömel, Rigel Kivi, Bruce Ingleby, Ryan J. Kramer, Belay Demoz, Fabio Madonna, Fabien Carminati, Owen Lewis, Brett Candy, Christopher Thomas, David Edwards, Noersomadi, Kensaku Shimizu, and Peter Thorne

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-3906', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Feb 2025
    • AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Masatomo Fujiwara, 26 Mar 2025
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2024-3906', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Feb 2025
    • AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Masatomo Fujiwara, 26 Mar 2025

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision | EF: Editorial file upload
AR by Masatomo Fujiwara on behalf of the Authors (01 Apr 2025)  Author's response   Author's tracked changes   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (03 Apr 2025) by Chunlüe Zhou
AR by Masatomo Fujiwara on behalf of the Authors (04 Apr 2025)
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Short summary
We assess and illustrate the benefits of high-altitude attainment of balloon-borne radiosonde soundings up to and beyond 10 hPa level from various aspects. We show that the extra costs and technical challenges involved in consistent attainment of high ascents are more than outweighed by the benefits for a broad variety of real-time and delayed-mode applications. Consistent attainment of high ascents should therefore be pursued across the balloon observational network.
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