User manual VAISALA MW31 DATASHEET

[. . . ] www. vaisala. com Vaisala DigiCORA® Sounding System MW31 for Portable Applications The Vaisala DigiCORA® Sounding System MW31 integrates the control of sounding, archiving of sounding data and the coding of meteorological messages. [. . . ] The MW31, with its peripheral equipment, is easy to transport, and quick to deploy. The transportation cases are made to carry the MW31, a few radiosondes, balloons and other necessary equipment. Benefits Flexibility for multiple applications NATO STANAG meteorological messages WMO meteorological messages Transportation cases designed for ease of portability The Vaisala DigiCORA® Sounding System MW31 is a sounding receiving station for meteorological and defence applications. It provides meteorological profile data for artillery ballistic preparation and numerical weather prediction models. for aviation, CBRN and naval applications. Optional graphical tools The optional METGRAPH software module provides you with graphical presentation of meteorological data. Technical data Vaisala DigiCORA® Sounding System MW31 Sounding workStation Meteorological messages aVailable in Stanag SoFtware: Pentium® M 1. 6 GHz minimum ruggedized laptop PC RAM 2 GB minimum Hard disk 80 GB minimum DVD+/-rw 13. 3" TFT display Operating system Windows® Vista Business, pre-installed DigiCORA Sounding software, pre-installed: Standard software STANAG software (optional) METGRAPH software (optional) VaiSala Sounding ProceSSing SubSyStem SPS311 STANAG 4082 METCM Standard Artillery Computer Meteorological Message STANAG 4061 METB3/2 Standard Ballistic Meteorological Message STANAG 4140 METTA Standard Target Aquisition Meteorological Message STANAG 2103 METFM Standard Fallout Meteorological Message METSR Sound Ranging Meteorological Message aVailable in Standard SoFtware: Supports all Vaisala radiosondes Windfinding options: Code correlating GPS P(Y) codeless GPS Radio-direction finding (with Vaisala Radiotheodolite RT20A) antennaS TEMP FM35-XI, TEMP SHIP FM36-XI, TEMP MOBIL FM38-XI PILOT FM32-XI, PILOT SHIP FM33-XI, PILOT MOBIL FM34-XI CLIMAT TEMP FM75-XII BUFR 3'09'052 (for TEMP data) BUFR 3'09'050 and BUFR 3'09'051 (for PILOT data) BUFR 3'09'054 (for CLIMAT TEMP data) Environmental requirements indoor equiPment: Portable antenna on a tripod for UHF and GPS Omni-directional UHF antenna (fixed or vehicle installations) GPS antenna (fixed or vehicle installations) Directional UHF antenna (automatic direction control) for fixed installation radioSonde cable Operating temperature Operating humidity (non-condensating) Storage temperature Storage humidity outdoor equiPment: 0 . . . 95 %RH For frequency and timer setting and reconditioning of Vaisala RS92 radiosondes See separate Technical Descrition for details Telemetry Frequency range 400 . . . 406 MHz, electronically adjustable Tuning step 10 kHz, user adjustable Error detection and correction Reed-Solomon (with digital radiosondes) Telemetry range 150 km with portable CG31 antenna and RS92-SGP radiosonde Up to 350 km (with directional antenna and RS92-SGP radiosonde) Operating temperature Operating humidity Operating wind speed Operating precipitation Storage temperature Storage humidity -40 . . . 100 %RH Transportation case dimensions Vaisala Sounding System MW31 Vaisala Portable Antenna Set CG31 990 x 450 x 410 mm 1380 x 355 x 385 mm For more information, visit www. vaisala. com or contact us at sales@vaisala. com ref. b210706en-c ©Vaisala 2010 this material is subject to copyright protection, with all copyrights retained by Vaisala and its individual partners. [. . . ] all specifications -- technical included -- are subject to change without notice. [. . . ]