Development and evaluation of novel dropsonde for aircraft observation

2024-10-25

A group of collaborators led by Prof. Kazuhisa Tsuboki from Nagoya University, including Designated Associate Prof. Sachie Kanada, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, and collaborators from the MEISEI ELECTRIC CO., LTD and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience developed a novel dropsonde for aircraft observation. This study confirmed the adequate performance of the dropsonde in temperature and wind observations. The newest version of dropsonde was used for the aircraft observation on Typhoon Barijat (2024) on October 9th and 10th in 2024 and data obtained by the dropsondes was transmitted to the Global Telecommunication System (GTS).
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) KAKENHI Grant 21H04992, “Study of dynamic-thermodynamic structure and intensification process of super-typhoon by aircraft observation” led by Prof. Kazuhisa Tsuboki from Nagoya University.

Journal: The Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA)
Title：Evaluation of newly developed dropsonde for aircraft observation
Authors：Kanada, S., M. Kato, K. Tsuboki, T. Ohigashi, S. Hirano, K. Shimizu, R. Nozawa, A. Yoshimura, Y. Goto, K. Tsukagoshi
Early online release: October 24, 2024
DOI：10.2151/sola.2024-050
URL: https://doi.org/10.2151/sola.2024-050