Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS41
Ambient pressure: 329mb
Ambient temperature: -35C
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: 40.9s, RS41 RH sensor time constants: 1.3
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20220225_220122.1 211330210 22022517306 12WSE IOP13, 22022517306 12WSE IOP13 AFRC C-130J, ---
Data type: AVAPS SOUNDING DATA, Channel 1
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 1
Sonde model: RSS421
Thermo sensor: RSS421
Processing Steps
QC processing completed (in less than 1.0s)
Levels created (in 1.0s)
WMO message coded (in less than 1.0s)
QC Data Recovery Statistics
2832 raw data records
33 ( 1.2%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
157 ( 5.5%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
11 ( 0.4%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 1378 ( 48.7%) values, QC retained 1330 ( 96.5%), overall rate: 47.0%
tdry : input file reported 1379 ( 48.7%) values, QC retained 1330 ( 96.4%), overall rate: 47.0%
RH : input file reported 1375 ( 48.6%) values, QC retained 1255 ( 91.3%), overall rate: 44.3%
winds: input file reported 2528 ( 89.3%) values, QC retained 2457 ( 97.2%), overall rate: 86.8%
QC Height Integration
Upward integration starts @ 0.0m
Downward integration starts @ 8887.4m
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: 4
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
Points which failed the wind error check: 2
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Outlier check disabled
Q/C filter check disabled
Points which failed the vertical velocity check: 0
Surface Observation
Splash time (time of the last usable frame): 700.91s
Extrapolated surface time: 701.45s
Fall distance from last frame: 5.5m
Extrapolated surface pressure: 1019.5mb
Extrapolated surface temperature: 18.8C
Extrapolated surface rh: 84.5%
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)