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Bertha 2014 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 Bertha 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

July 31, 2014

USAF 301 (0103A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS
NOAA 49 (0203A) Cat | FRD | AVAPS | HSA | TEMPDROP | SkewT

August 01, 2014

USAF 301 (0303A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS

August 02, 2014

USAF 301 (0603A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS

August 03, 2014

NOAA 42 (0803A) Cat | Drop log | FRD | AVAPS | HSA | TEMPDROP | SkewT | Synmap
NOAA 49 (WX03A) Cat | FRD | AVAPS | HSA | TEMPDROP | SkewT

August 04, 2014

NOAA 43 (1003A) Cat | FRD | AVAPS | HSA | TEMPDROP | SkewT
USAF 301 (1103A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS
NOAA 42 (1203A) Cat | Drop log | FRD | AVAPS | HSA | TEMPDROP | SkewT | Synmap

August 05, 2014

USAF 304 (1303A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS
NOAA 42 (WB03A) Cat | FRD | AVAPS | HSA | TEMPDROP | SkewT | Synmap

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