Radiosonde: A tool to monitor atmospheric profiles

Abstract

Monitoring with an instrument is important to enhance the knowledge of the atmosphere. An instrument consists of sensors and other important elements to measure and process the data of different kinds of meteorological parameters. Sensor is an essential part of the instrument because it records the information about the atmosphere and supplies the corresponding output in the data displayed for the users.This paper introduces the radiosonde observations to measure the vertical profiles of meteorological parameters (temperature, relative humidity, mixing ratio and wind speed) profilesover three stations i.e., Srinagar (J&K), Delhi, and Mumbai on 09 Aug 2018 (a monsoon day) and 15 Feb 2019 (a winter day) at 0000 GMT and 1200 GMT.