Radiosonde Intercomparison and Validation (RIVAL) Field Campaign Report

Technical Report · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1894500· OSTI ID:1894500

Borg, Lori ^[1]; Dirksen, Ruud ^[2]; Fasso, Alessandro ^[3]; Gardiner, Tom ^[4]; Jauhiainen, Hannu ^[5]; Querel, Richard ^[6]; Reale, Tony ^[7]; Thorne, Peter ^[8]; Tobin, David ^[1]; Wang, June ^[9]

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1. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
2. Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach (Germany)
3. Univ. of Bergamo (Italy)
4. National Physical Lab. (United Kingdom)
5. Vaisala Oyj, Vantaa (Finland)
6. National Inst. of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd., Auckland (New Zealand)
7. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States)
8. Maynooth Univ. (Ireland)
9. State Univ. of New York, Albany, NY (United States)

Radiosondes provide the primary source of high-vertical-resolution temperature, humidity, and pressure data from the surface through to the lower stratosphere, and are a key component of the sustained measurement program at U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility observatories. At the end of 2017 the radiosonde manufacturer Vaisala ceased sales and production of the RS92 radiosondes, which were in use at the ARM field sites since 2005, and transitioned to the RS41 model. The Radiosonde Intercomparison and Validation (RIVAL) field campaign was proposed in order to undertake a sustained intercomparison and validation campaign at the Eastern North Atlantic (ENA), North Slope of Alaska (NSA) at Barrow, and Southern Great Plains (SGP) observatories in order to fully quantify the RS92-RS41 sonde differences and their dependence on all relevant influencing variables, and to understand the effects of the sonde model transition.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). ARM Data Center
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• Contributing Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1894500
• Report Number(s): DOE/SC-ARM-22-005
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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