SOLAR RADIATION CORRECTION IN RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS

• Main Authors: SURVO, Petteri, JAUHIAINEN, Hannu
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 03.08.2022
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVEREDIN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; MEASURING; MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MEASURING QUANTITY OF HEAT; MEASURING TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; PHYSICS; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; TESTING; THERMALLY-SENSITIVE ELEMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system (1) for solar radiation correction in radiosonde temperature measurements, the system comprising a radiosonde (2) having a temperature sensor (4) configured to determine a temperature of the atmosphere at different altitudes, at least one light sensing assembly (5) comprising a light sensor (6), and a light collector (7) configured to collect light from different solar radiation angles at the different altitudes, and the system further comprising control electronics (8) or a computing device (14) configured to calculate for each altitude a solar radiation correction based on the signal received by the light sensor (6) in order to obtain a corrected temperature reading for each altitude.