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Hurricane Tomas 2010 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 Tomas 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
AVAPS format
TEMPDROP format
DOPPLER links to doppler/dropsonde graphs

Oct 30, 2010

2010/10/30 USAF TEMPDROP | AVAPS

Oct 31, 2010

2010/10/31 USAF TEMPDROP | AVAPS

Nov 01, 2010

2010/11/01 USAF TEMPDROP | AVAPS

Nov 02, 2010

2010/11/02 USAF TEMPDROP | AVAPS

Nov 03, 2010

2010/11/03 NOAA 42 TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS

2010/11/03 NOAA 49 TEMPDROP | AVAPS | Station plots

Nov 04, 2010

2010/11/04 NOAA 42 TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS

2010/11/04 USAF TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2010/11/04 NOAA 43 TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS

Nov 05, 2010

2010/11/05 USAF TEMPDROP | AVAPS

Nov 06, 2010

2010/11/06 NOAA 42 TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS

2010/11/06 USAF TEMPDROP | AVAPS

2010/11/06 NOAA 43 TEMPDROP | HSA | Catalog | FRD | AVAPS

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