Various Data Formats

AOC Standard Tape format
This is the format the 1 second flight data is sent to us on DAT tapes.
USAF 10 second data format
This is the format for the 10 second flight data that is sent to us from the 53rd WRS.
Radar Tape format
This is the format of the sweeps for the Lower Fuscelage radar.
SFMR data format
This is the format of the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer data. This instrument estimates surface wind and subaircraft rain from a passive radiometer.
AXBT data format
This is the format of the data from Airborne eXpendable BathyThermographs, which take temperature vs depth soundings of the ocean.
Cloud Physics data format
This is the format of the cloud physics data collected by NOAA P3 aircraft.

HSA format
HRD Spline Analysis format; ASCII table format where the numerical values of temperature, humidity, pressure, and winds are fit to a series of splines.
AVAPS format
Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System format; ASCII table format where the giving the output from the AVAPS dropsonde workstation. This is usually the raw output.
TEMPDROP format
The TEMPDROP code for each sounding is an ASCII file of the TTAA & TTBB drop messages. One file for each drop.