Portable Radio Sonde Instrument
Portable radio sonde instrument being launched.
The Vaisala Radio-sounding RS90-AG attaches to a weather balloon and measures temperature, pressure, humidity and wind speed.
Deployment.
Spring/Summer 2002 UTLS ozone project, 'ozone and water vapour measuremnts in the tropopause region', Aberystwyth.
Winter 2003 HIBISCUS, Brazil.
Ongoing, Water vapour lidar calibration.
Specifications of radiosonde RS90-AG
Temperature accuracy (±0.25 K)
Presure accuracy (±0.75 mb)
Humidity accuracy (±3 %)
Wind speed accuracy (±0.2 ms-1)
Tephigram from the 14/07/04
Tephigram.
The Portable Radio Sonde is supported by the NCAS Facility for Ground-based Atmospheric Measurement (FGAM).