Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS41
Ambient pressure: 328mb
Ambient temperature: -41C
Ambient RH: 91%
Temperature equilibration accuracy: 0.1C
RH equilibration accuracy: 5.0%
Temperature equilibration at time: 6.1s, RS41 T sensor time constants: 6.5
RH equilibration at time: 46.1s, RS41 RH sensor time constants: 1.5
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20230131_025308.4 222230807 23013022302 16WSE IOP22, 23013022302 16WSE IOP22 AFRC C-130J, ---
Data type: AVAPS SOUNDING DATA, Channel 4
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 4
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
2831 raw data records
49 ( 1.7%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
152 ( 5.4%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
10 ( 0.4%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 1384 ( 48.9%) values, QC retained 1328 ( 96.0%), overall rate: 46.9%
tdry : input file reported 1389 ( 49.1%) values, QC retained 1327 ( 95.5%), overall rate: 46.9%
RH : input file reported 1377 ( 48.6%) values, QC retained 1245 ( 90.4%), overall rate: 44.0%
winds: input file reported 2746 ( 97.0%) values, QC retained 2624 ( 95.6%), overall rate: 92.7%
QC Height Integration
Upward integration starts @ 0.0m
Downward integration starts @ 8498.1m
QC for GPS Altitude
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the number of satellites check: 1
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Points which failed the Q/C filter check: 0
QC for GPS Position
Points which failed the latitude limit check: 0
Points which failed the longitude limit check: 0
Points which failed the number of satellites check: 2
Points which failed the latitude buddy check: 0
Points which failed the longitude buddy check: 0
Points which failed the latitude Q/C filter check: 0
Points which failed the longitude 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: 1
Points which failed the wind error check: 13
Points which failed the buddy check: 0
Outlier check disabled
Q/C filter check disabled
Points which failed the vertical velocity check: 1
Surface Observation
Splash time (time of the last usable frame): 707.25s
Extrapolated surface time: 707.79s
Fall distance from last frame: 5.0m
Extrapolated surface pressure: 1014.7mb
Extrapolated surface temperature: 9.1C
Extrapolated surface rh: 97.4%
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)