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Evaluation of Windsond S1H2 performance in Kumasi during the 2016 DACCIWA field campaign
Sparv Embedded, Sweden (http://windsond.com, last access: 22 February 2019), has answered the
call for less expensive but accurate reusable radiosondes by producing a
reusable sonde primarily intended for boundary-layer observations collection:
the Windsond S1H2. To evaluate the performance of the S1H2, in-flight
comparisons between the Vaisala RS41-SG and Windsond S1H2 were performed
during the Dynamics–Aerosol–Chemistry–Cloud Interactions in West Africa
(DACCIWA) project (FP7/2007–2013) ground campaign at the Kumasi Agromet supersite (6∘40′45.76′′ N, 1∘33′36.50′′ W) inside the
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, campus. The
results suggest a good correlation between the RS41-SG and S1H2 data, the
main difference lying in the GPS signal processing and the humidity response
time at cloud top. Reproducibility tests show that there is no major
performance degradation arising from S1H2 sonde reuse.</p