Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS41
Ambient pressure: 329mb
Ambient temperature: -36C
Ambient RH: 50%
Temperature equilibration accuracy: 0.1C
RH equilibration accuracy: 5.0%
Temperature equilibration at time: 5.9s, RS41 T sensor time constants: 6.4
RH equilibration at time: 42.2s, RS41 RH sensor time constants: 1.4
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20200309_005409_P.2 185120812 20030821305 15WSE TRACK99, 20030821305 15WSE TRACK99 AFRC C-130J, ---
Data type: AVAPS SOUNDING DATA, Channel 2
Sonde model: RSS421
Thermo sensor: RSS421
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: RSS421
Thermo sensor: RSS421
Processing Steps
QC processing completed (in less than 1.0s)
Levels created (in less than 1.0s)
WMO message coded (in less than 1.0s)
QC Data Recovery Statistics
2899 raw data records
38 ( 1.3%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
140 ( 4.8%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
18 ( 0.6%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 1426 ( 49.2%) values, QC retained 1381 ( 96.8%), overall rate: 47.6%
tdry : input file reported 1430 ( 49.3%) values, QC retained 1381 ( 96.6%), overall rate: 47.6%
RH : input file reported 1412 ( 48.7%) values, QC retained 1304 ( 92.4%), overall rate: 45.0%
winds: input file reported 9 ( 0.3%) values, QC retained 1 ( 11.1%), overall rate: 0.0%
QC Height Integration
Upward integration starts @ 0.0m
Downward integration starts @ 8717.2m
QC Processing Errors
Final smoothing failed for U winds
Unable to dynamically adjust winds
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: 3
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: 3
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: 1
Points which failed the wind error check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Outlier check disabled
Q/C filter check disabled
Unable to dynamically adjust winds (usually due to spline fit failure)
Surface Observation
Splash time (time of the last usable frame): 724.29s
Extrapolated surface time: 724.83s
Fall distance from last frame: 5.4m
Extrapolated surface pressure: 1012.3mb
Extrapolated surface temperature: 19.3C
Extrapolated surface rh: 77.6%
Surface Wind Determination
PTU/wind offset is 0.00s (PTU observations lead wind observations by 0.00s)