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Cindy 2017 sondes

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

June 19, 2017
USAF 305 (0103A) 19:14-00:43Z Reconnaissance AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP
June 20, 2017
USAF 308 (0203A) 14:38-19:12 Z Reconnaissance FRD Catalog AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP
USAF 306 (0303A) 22:31-03:21 Z Reconnaissance FRD Catalog AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP
June 21, 2017
USAF 305 (0403A) 09:39-18:01 Z Reconnaissance FRD Catalog AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP
June 22, 2017
USAF 303 (0503A) 02:15-16:09 Z Reconnaissance AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP
June 23, 2017
USAF 304 (WXWXA) 15:45-20:00 Z Ferry No flight level data

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