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Ingrid 2013 sondes

Important Notice about dropsonde data:


A dry bias in the RD94 and mini dropsonde (NRD94) humidity measurements has been discovered, which existed ftom 2010 to 2015. This document describes the background of the dry bias, how to identify impacted files, how to correct existing data, and how to implement a correction in AVAPS. ASPEN version 3.3-236 is used to correct this dry bias both in reprocessing of existing data as well as in real time data acquisition within AVAPS.

Below are listings of transmitted sonde data from reconnaissance aircraft missions into Ingrid along with PDFs of synoptic plots of the dropsonde data. Also are pages showing the key and examples of the FRD, HSA, AVAPS and TEMPDROP formats.

FRD,CAT formats
HSA format
TEMPDROP format
AVAPS format
DOPPLER links to doppler/dropsonde graphs

September 12, 2013

USAF 302 (0110A) CVS | HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS

September 13, 2013

USAF 304 (0210A) CVS | HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS
NOAA 49 (0310A) FRD | HSA | TEMPDROP | SKEW-T | AVAPS
NOAA 43 (0410A) FRD | HSA | TEMPDROP | SKEW-T | AVAPS | SynMaps
USAF 304 (0510A) CVS | HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS

September 14, 2013

NOAA 42 (0610A) Drop log | FRD | HSA | TEMPDROP | SKEW-T | AVAPS
USAF 307 (0710A) CVS | HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS
NOAA 49 (0810A) FRD | HSA | TEMPDROP | SKEW-T | AVAPS
NOAA 43 (0910A) Drop log | FRD | HSA | TEMPDROP | SKEW-T | AVAPS | SynMaps
USAF 304 (1010A) HSA | TEMPDROP | AVAPS

September 15, 2013

NOAA 42 (1110A) Drop log | FRD | HSA | TEMPDROP | SKEW-T | AVAPS | SynMaps
USAF 307 (1210A) CVS | HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS
NOAA 43 (1310A) Drop log | FRD | HSA | TEMPDROP | SKEW-T | AVAPS
USAF 303 (1410A) CVS | HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS
NOAA 49 (WX10A) FRD | HSA | TEMPDROP | SKEW-T | AVAPS

September 16, 2013

USAF 303 (1510A) CVS | HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS
AVAPS - Indicates file not available

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