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Various Data Formats

Flight Data Formats

  • AOC Standard Tape format
    This is the format the 1 second flight data is sent to us on DAT tapes.

  • USAF 10 second data format
    This is the format for the 10 second flight data that is sent to us from the 53rd WRS.

  • Radar Tape format
    This is the format of the sweeps for the Lower Fuscelage radar.

  • RVP-5 Radar Tape format
    This is the format of the RVP-5 radar system.

  • SFMR data format
    This is the format of the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer data. This instrument estimates surface wind and subaircraft rain from a passive radiometer.

  • AXBT data format
    This is the format of the data from Airborne eXpendable BathyThermographs, which take temperature vs depth soundings of the ocean.

  • Cloud Physics data format
    This is the format of the cloud physics data collected by NOAA P3 aircraft.

Dropsonde Data Formats

  • HSA format
    HRD Spline Analysis format; ASCII table format where the numerical values of temperature, humidity, pressure, and winds are fit to a series of splines.

  • AVAPS format
    Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System format; ASCII table format where the giving the output from the AVAPS dropsonde workstation. This is usually the raw output.

  • TEMPDROP format
    The TEMPDROP code for each sounding is an ASCII file of the TTAA & TTBB drop messages. One file for each drop.
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