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Chris 2018 sondes

Below are listings of transmitted sonde data from reconnaissance aircraft missions into Chris 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

July 07, 2018
USAF 306 (0103A) 11:38-17:20 Z Reconnaissance No drops
July 08, 2018
USAF 306 (0203A) 02:20-08:39 Z Reconnaissance No drops
NOAA 42 (0303A) 08:33-16:50 Z TDR FRD Catalog AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP Drop log
USAF 309 (0403A) 14:40-22:13 Z Reconnaissance No drops
NOAA 42 (0503A) 23:32-04:52 Z TDR FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA TEMPDROP Drop log
July 09, 2018
USAF 306 (0603A)02:03-09:32 Z Reconnaissance AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP
NOAA 42 (0703A) 08:32-15:52 Z TDR FRD Catalog AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP Drop log
USAF 306 (0803A) 14:19-20:19 Z Reconnaissance FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA TEMPDROP
NOAA 42 (0903A) 22:30-07:30 Z TDR FRD Catalog AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP Drop log
July 10, 2018
USAF 306 (1003A) 02:28-09:59 Z Reconnaissance FRD Catalog AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP
USAF 306 (1103A) 09:23-20:59 Z Reconnaissance AVAPS HSA TEMPDROP

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