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Karl 2016 sondes

Below are listings of transmitted sonde data from reconnaissance aircraft missions into Karl 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 20, 2016
NOAA 49 (WA12A) 17:22-00:12Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit
NOAA 43 (WB12A) 17:49-01:29Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit
September 21, 2016
NOAA 43 (WC12A) 06:04-12:54Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit Drop Log
NOAA 49 (WD12A) 16:57-23:57Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit
September 22, 2016
USAF 306 (0112A) 17:30-01:30Z Reconnaissance
NOAA 49 (WE12A) 17:33-00:23Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit
NOAA 43 (WF12A) 17:33-00:23Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit
September 23, 2016
NOAA 43 (WG12A) 05:35-13:55Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit Drop Log
USAF 306 (0212A) 02:01-07:31Z Reconnaissance
NOAA 49 (WH12A) 17:01-00;01Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit
NOAA 43 (WI12A) 17:40-02:00Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit
USAF 306 (0312A) 14:18-01:30Z Reconnaissance
September 24, 2016
USAF 302 (0412A) 03:22-09:43Z Reconnaissance
NOAA 43 (WJ12A) 05:29-14:09Z RI FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit Drop Log
NOAA 49 (WK12A) 17:53-01:03Z ET FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit
NOAA 43 (WL12A) 17:41-02:25Z ET FRD Catalog AVAPS HSA Transmit
September 26, 2016

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