GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network
Vaisala RS41
Details
General information
- Model
RS41
- Manufacturer
Vaisala (www.vaisala.com)
- Weight
109 g: RS41-SG
113 g: RS41-SGP- Size
145 x 63 x 46 mm (body)
272 x 63 x 104 mm (sensor boom bent)- Sensors
- Pressure: silicon (if SGP), derived from GPS (if SG)
- Temperature: platinum resistor
- Humidity: thin-film capacitor, heated sensor, with internal temperature sensor
- Position: GPS
- Measurement cycle
1 s
- Available since
2014
- Ground system
Vaisala DigiCORA® Sounding System MW41
- Ground check
RI41, RI41-B
Archive file formates
- MWX if MW41 is used
Archived soundings by GRUAN
Data products
- RS41-GDP.1 -- RS41 GRUAN data product version 1 (provisionally certified 2022) -- data access
- RS41-EDT.1 -- RS41 Vaisala data product (from table SynchronicedSoundingData) -- data access
Related Documents
GRUAN
- Jensen 2016: Jensen, M. P., Holdridge, D. J., Survo, P., Lehtinen, R., Baxter, S., Toto, T., and Johnson, K. L.: Comparison of Vaisala radiosondes RS41 and RS92 at the ARM Southern Great Plains site, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3115-3129, doi:10.5194/amt-9-3115-2016
Vaisala
- RS41 on the Vaisala website
- Vaisala Radiosonde RS41 Data Continuity
- Vaisala Radiosonde RS41-SG Datasheet (pdf)
- Vaisala Radiosonde RS41-SGP Datasheet (pdf)
- Comparison of Vaisala Radiosondes RS41 and RS92 (pdf)
External
- Edwards 2013: Edwards, D., Anderson, G., Oakley, T., and Gault, P.: Met Office Intercomparison of Vaisala RS92 and RS41 Radiosondes, Met Office, Exeter, UK, Met Office Report, 89 pp., 2013.