Estimates of Mode-S EHS aircraft-derived wind observation errors using triple collocation

de Haan, Siebren

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4141-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4141-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4141-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 8

Research article

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30 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 30 Aug 2016

Estimates of Mode-S EHS aircraft-derived wind observation errors using triple collocation

Siebren de Haan

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SC C4342: 'Scientific questions and comments', Jung-Hoon Kim, 14 Dec 2015
- AC C5791: 'Response to review by Dr. Jung-Hoon Kim', S. de Haan, 13 Apr 2016
RC C4486: 'Comments on "Estimates of Mode-S EHS aircraft derived wind observation errors using triple collocation"', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Dec 2015
- AC C5795: 'Response to review by reviewer#1', S. de Haan, 13 Apr 2016
RC C5526: 'Comments on "Estimates of Mode-S EHS aircraft derived wind observation errors using triple collocation"', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Feb 2016
- AC C5803: 'response to review by reviewer#2', S. de Haan, 13 Apr 2016

Short summary

The paper presents estimates of aircraft-derived wind observations obtained using Mode-S EHS method by applying the triple-collocation technique. Triple-collocated data sets were constructed using sodar (at Schiphol airport) and Doppler radar wind observation (from two radars in the Netherlands) in combination with numerical weather model data. It was found that the wind error near the surface is around 1.4 m s⁻¹, while at 500 hPa the error is estimated to be around 1.1 m s⁻¹.