Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS41
Ambient pressure: 392mb
Ambient temperature: -16C
Ambient RH: 41%
Temperature equilibration accuracy: 0.1C
RH equilibration accuracy: 5.0%
Temperature equilibration at time: 5.2s, RS41 T sensor time constants: 6.0
RH equilibration at time: 24.4s, RS41 RH sensor time constants: 0.9
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20220830_114454.3 221240722 TC-91, 20220830H1 WP-3D Orion, N42RF
Data type: AVAPS SOUNDING DATA, Channel 3
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 3
Sonde model: RSS421
Thermo sensor: RSS421
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
2517 raw data records
38 ( 1.5%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
128 ( 5.1%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
8 ( 0.3%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 1232 ( 48.9%) values, QC retained 1185 ( 96.2%), overall rate: 47.1%
tdry : input file reported 1233 ( 49.0%) values, QC retained 1185 ( 96.1%), overall rate: 47.1%
RH : input file reported 1228 ( 48.8%) values, QC retained 1145 ( 93.2%), overall rate: 45.5%
winds: input file reported 2435 ( 96.7%) values, QC retained 2330 ( 95.7%), overall rate: 92.6%
QC Height Integration
Upward integration starts @ 0.0m
Downward integration starts @ 7753.2m
QC for GPS Altitude
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the number of satellites check: 7
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: 9
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: 1
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: 19
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): 628.75s
Extrapolated surface time: 629.29s
Fall distance from last frame: 5.5m
Extrapolated surface pressure: 1009.7mb
Extrapolated surface temperature: 28.1C
Extrapolated surface rh: 81.9%
Surface Wind Determination
Surface wind coded for an adjusted altitude of 12.0m
PTU/wind offset is 0.00s (PTU observations lead wind observations by 0.00s)