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Gordon 2018 sondes

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

September 03, 2018
USAF 307 (0107A) 12:40-19:23 Z Reconnaissance HSA TEMPDROP
NOAA 42 (0207A) 20:27-23:57 Z TDR (Aborted) FRD Cat AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP DropLog
USAF 305 (0307A) 21:12-05:32 Z Reconnaissance HSA TEMPDROP
September 04, 2018
NOAA 42 (0407A) 08:34-17:43 Z TDR FRD Cat AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP DropLog
USAF 305 (0507A) 10:01-17:53 Z Reconnaissance HSA TEMPDROP
NOAA 42 (0607A) 22:12-05:01 Z TDR FRD Cat AVAPS Plots HSA TEMPDROP DropLog

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