GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network
Vaisala RS92
Workhorse of GRUAN until 2017
Details
General information
- Model
RS92
- Manufacturer
Vaisala (www.vaisala.com)
- Weight
160 g: Weight with lithium battery (RS92-SGPL)
280-290 g: Weight with alkaline (dry-cell) batteries (RS92-SGPD, RS92-SGPA)- Size
220 x 80 x 75 mm
- Sensors
Pressure: silicon
Temperature: capacitive wire
Humidity: thin-film capacitor, heated twin sensor
Position: GPS- Measurement cycle
1 s
- Available since
2004
- Ground system
Vaisala DigiCORA® Sounding System MW31
Vaisala DigiCORA® Sounding System MW41- Ground check
GC25
Archive file formates
- DC3DB if MW31 is used
- MWX if MW41 is used
Archived soundings by GRUAN
Data products
- RS92-GDP.2 -- RS92 GRUAN data product version 2 -- data access
- RS92-EDT.1 -- RS92 Vaisala data product (from table EDT or SynchronicedSoundingData) -- data access
Related Documents
GRUAN
- GRUAN-TD-4: Michael Sommer, Ruud Dirksen and Christoph von Rohden, Brief Description of the RS92 GRUAN Data Product (RS92-GDP), GRUAN-TD-4, v2.0 (2016-02-11).
- Dirksen 2014: Dirksen, R. J., Sommer, M., Immler, F. J., Hurst, D. F., Kivi, R., and Vömel, H. (2014): Reference quality upper-air measurements: GRUAN data processing for the Vaisala RS92 radiosonde, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 4463-4490, doi:10.5194/amt-7-4463-2014.
Vaisala
- RS92 on the Vaisala website
- RS92 Data Continuity
- Vaisala Radiosonde RS92-SGP Datasheet (pdf)
- Vaisala Radiosonde RS92 Users Guide (pdf)
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