Articles | Volume 12, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4191-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4191-2019
Research article
 | 
02 Aug 2019
Research article |  | 02 Aug 2019

Evaluation of wake influence on high-resolution balloon-sonde measurements

Jens Faber, Michael Gerding, Andreas Schneider, Andreas Dörnbrack, Henrike Wilms, Johannes Wagner, and Franz-Josef Lübken

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by Jens Faber on behalf of the Authors (03 Jun 2019)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (25 Jun 2019) by Jörg Gumbel
AR by Jens Faber on behalf of the Authors (01 Jul 2019)  Manuscript 
Download
Short summary
Atmospheric measurements on rising balloons can be compromised by the balloon's wake. The aim of this study is to provide a tool for assessing the likelihood of encountering the balloon's wake at the position of the gondola. This includes an uncertainty analysis of the calculation and a retrieval of vertical winds. We find an average wake encounter probability of 28 % for a standard radiosonde. Additionally, we evaluate the influence of wake from smaller objects on turbulence measurements.