Vaisala DigiCORA® Unmanned Sounding System AUTOSONDE
The Vaisala DigiCORA® Unmanned Sounding System AUTOSONDE is
an important tool in the drive for meteorological data availability. With
AUTOSONDE, national weather services can extend the coverage of their upper-air
networks to geographically remote, hard-to-reach locations and thus develop a
more comprehensive synoptic upper-air program. AUTOSONDE has proved itself over
the years in a wide range of climates. It is an integral part of many national
upper-air networks.
AUTOSONDE can be configured to suit the characteristics of
the proposed site. It launches radiosondes in unmanned operation, automatically
receives the radiosonde signals, converts the signals to meteorological
messages, and forwards the messages to the national weather service.
The AUTOSONDE system software is Windows®-based. The
sounding schedule and other settings are entered in the intuitive Graphical
User Interface, either onsite or remotely from a remote terminal. Working at a
central operations site, the meteorologist can interrupt AUTOSONDE’s regular
sounding schedule and launch radiosondes in order to measure e.g. extreme
weather events.