Vaisala RS92

Workhorse of GRUAN until 2017

Details

General information

RS92-SGPL
Vaisala RS92-SGPL
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.

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