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Irene 2011 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 Irene 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
AVAPS format
TEMPDROP format
DOPPLER links to doppler/dropsonde graphs

August 21, 2011

2011/08/23 USAF 300 before 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

August 22, 2011

2011/08/23 USAF 300 after 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/23 USAF 302 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/23 USAF 307 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/23 USAF 303 before 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

August 23, 2011

2011/08/23 USAF 303 after 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/23 NOAA 49 #1 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/23 USAF 302 betore 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/23 NOAA 42 DROP log | TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS |

2011/08/23 NOAA 49 #2 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

August 24, 2011

2011/08/23 USAF 302 after 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/24 NOAA 42 DROP log | TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS |

2011/08/24 USAF 302 before 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

August 25, 2011

2011/08/24 USAF 302 after 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/25 NOAA 49 #1 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/25 USAF 300 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/25 NOAA 42 DROP log | TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS |

2011/08/25 USAF 306 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/25 NOAA 43 DROP log | TEMPDROP | Log | AVAPS

2011/08/25 NOAA 49 #2 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

August 26, 2011

2011/08/26 USAF 304 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/26 NOAA 49 #1 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/26 USAF 306 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/26 NOAA 42 DROP log | TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS |

2011/08/26 NOAA 43 DROP log | TEMPDROP | Log | AVAPS

2011/08/26 NOAA 49 #2 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/26 USAF 308 before 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

August 27, 2011

2011/08/26 USAF 308 after 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/27 NOAA 43 DROP log | TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS |

2011/08/27 USAF 303 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/27 USAF 304 before 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

August 28, 2011

2011/08/27 USAF 304 after 24Z TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2011/08/28 USAF 306 TEMPDROP | AVAPS

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