Managing the transition from Vaisala RS92 to RS41 radiosondes within the Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper-Air Network (GRUAN): a progress report

Dirksen, Ruud J.; Bodeker, Greg E.; Thorne, Peter W.; Merlone, Andrea; Reale, Tony; Wang, Junhong; Hurst, Dale F.; Demoz, Belay B.; Gardiner, Tom D.; Ingleby, Bruce; Sommer, Michael; von Rohden, Christoph; Leblanc, Thierry

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-337-2020

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-337-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-337-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

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18 Aug 2020

Research article |

| 18 Aug 2020

Managing the transition from Vaisala RS92 to RS41 radiosondes within the Global Climate Observing System Reference Upper-Air Network (GRUAN): a progress report

Ruud J. Dirksen, Greg E. Bodeker, Peter W. Thorne, Andrea Merlone, Tony Reale, Junhong Wang, Dale F. Hurst, Belay B. Demoz, Tom D. Gardiner, Bruce Ingleby, Michael Sommer, Christoph von Rohden, and Thierry Leblanc

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RC1: 'Review of "Progress in managing the transition from RS92 to the Vaisala RS41 as the operational radiosonde', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Dec 2019
- AC1: 'Response to comments of reviewer 1', Ruud Dirksen, 30 Apr 2020
RC2: 'My report attached', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Feb 2020
- AC2: 'Response to comments of reviewer 2', Ruud Dirksen, 30 Apr 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Ruud Dirksen on behalf of the Authors (14 May 2020)

ED: Publish as is (11 Jun 2020) by Maria Genzer

AR by Ruud Dirksen on behalf of the Authors (20 Jun 2020)

Short summary

This paper describes GRUAN's strategy for a network-wide change of the operational radiosonde from Vaisala RS92 to RS41. GRUAN's main goal is to provide long-term data records that are free of inhomogeneities due to instrumental effects, which requires proper change management. The approach is to fully characterize differences between the two radiosonde types using laboratory tests, twin soundings, and ancillary data, as well as by drawing from the various fields of expertise available in GRUAN.