Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS41
Ambient pressure: 358mb
Ambient temperature: -21C
Ambient RH: 38%
Temperature equilibration accuracy: 0.1C
RH equilibration accuracy: 5.0%
Temperature equilibration at time: 5.4s, RS41 T sensor time constants: 6.1
RH equilibration at time: 28.3s, RS41 RH sensor time constants: 1.0
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20210812_015729.6 202640083 TS Fred, 20210811H1 WP-3D Orion, N42RF
Data type: AVAPS SOUNDING DATA, Channel 6
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 6
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
2765 raw data records
28 ( 1.0%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
96 ( 3.5%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
5 ( 0.2%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 1365 ( 49.4%) values, QC retained 1327 ( 97.2%), overall rate: 48.0%
tdry : input file reported 1361 ( 49.2%) values, QC retained 1326 ( 97.4%), overall rate: 48.0%
RH : input file reported 1359 ( 49.2%) values, QC retained 1272 ( 93.6%), overall rate: 46.0%
winds: input file reported 2697 ( 97.5%) values, QC retained 2628 ( 97.4%), overall rate: 95.0%
QC Height Integration
Upward integration starts @ 0.0m
Downward integration starts @ 8448.7m
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: 8
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: 8
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: 0
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): 690.75s
Extrapolated surface time: 691.29s
Fall distance from last frame: 5.3m
Extrapolated surface pressure: 1015.2mb
Extrapolated surface temperature: 29.4C
Extrapolated surface rh: 75.5%
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)