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Erika 2015 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 Erika 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

August 25, 2015

USAF 301  (0105A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | FRD
NOAA 49  (WA05A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | FRD
NOAA 43  (WB05A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | Drop log | FRD

August 26, 2015

USAF 301  (0205A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | FRD
NOAA 43  (WC05A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | Drop log | FRD
NOAA 43  (0305A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | Drop log | FRD
USAF 301  (0405A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | FRD

August 27, 2015

NOAA 43  (0505A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | Drop log | FRD
USAF 303  (0605A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | FRD
NOAA 49  (0705A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | FRD

August 28, 2015

NOAA 49  (0905A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | FRD
USAF 303  (1005A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | FRD
NOAA 43  (1105A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | Drop log | FRD

August 29, 2015

USAF 303  (1205A) HSA | TEMPDROP | Plots | AVAPS | Cat | FRD

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