Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS80
Ambient pressure: 298mb
Ambient temperature: -40C
Ambient RH: 50%
Temperature equilibration accuracy: 0.1C
RH equilibration accuracy: 5.0%
Temperature equilibration at time: 24.9s, RS80 T sensor time constants: 6.5
RH equilibration at time: 48.1s, RS80 RH sensor time constants: 4.2
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20180131_233129_P.2 175015050 18013118307 WXWXC AR03, 18013118307 WXWXC AR03 AFRC C-130J, ---
Data type: AVAPS SOUNDING DATA, Channel 2
Sonde model: RS904
Thermo sensor: RS904
Fast Fall Test
Number of points with excessive fall rate: 0
Percentage of points with excessive fall rate: 0
Sounding diagnosed as a fast fall: No
File Processing
Data type: AVAPS SOUNDING DATA, Channel 2
Sonde model: RS904
Thermo sensor: RS904
Processing Steps
QC processing completed (in 1.0s)
Levels created (in less than 1.0s)
WMO message coded (in less than 1.0s)
QC Data Recovery Statistics
2831 raw data records
30 ( 1.1%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
224 ( 7.9%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
10 ( 0.4%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 1387 ( 49.0%) values, QC retained 1308 ( 94.3%), overall rate: 46.2%
tdry : input file reported 1387 ( 49.0%) values, QC retained 1308 ( 94.3%), overall rate: 46.2%
RH : input file reported 1212 ( 42.8%) values, QC retained 1180 ( 97.4%), overall rate: 41.7%
winds: input file reported 2704 ( 95.5%) values, QC retained 2557 ( 94.6%), overall rate: 90.3%
QC Height Integration
Upward integration starts @ 0.0m
Downward integration starts @ 8990.1m
QC for GPS Altitude
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Points which failed the Q/C filter check: 0
QC for GPS Latitude
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Points which failed the Q/C filter check: 0
QC for GPS Longitude
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Points which failed the Q/C filter check: 0
QC for Pressure
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Points which failed the outlier check: 0
Points which failed the Q/C filter check: 0
QC for Relative Humidity
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 2
Points which failed the outlier check: 0
Points which failed the Q/C filter check: 0
Points which failed the lower limit check: 0
Points which failed the upper limit check: 0
Points which failed the lower limit check: 0
Points which failed the upper limit check: 0
QC for Temperature
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Points which failed the outlier check: 0
Points which failed the Q/C filter check: 0
QC for VV Pressure
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Points which failed the outlier check: 0
Points which failed the Q/C filter check: 0
QC for Winds
Points which failed the wind speed limit check: 0
Points which failed the wind direction limit check: 0
Points which failed the number of satellites check: 0
Wind error check not applied (sonde is not xRD41)
Points which failed the buddy check: 1
Outlier check disabled
Q/C filter check disabled
Points which failed the vertical velocity check: 9
Surface Observation
Splash time (time of the last usable frame): 707.26s
Extrapolated surface time: 707.80s
Fall distance from last frame: 6.0m
Extrapolated surface pressure: 990.5mb
Extrapolated surface temperature: 12.5C
Extrapolated surface rh: 96.4%
Surface Wind Determination
Surface wind coded for an adjusted altitude of 10.0m
PTU/wind offset is 0.00s (PTU observations lead wind observations by 0.00s)
TD Dry Bias Correction
Not applied
Correction was present in the source data
Number of 0.1% RH values removed: 0