Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS41
Ambient pressure: 155mb
Ambient temperature: -65C
Ambient RH: 50%
Temperature equilibration accuracy: 0.1C
RH equilibration accuracy: 5.0%
Temperature equilibration at time: 8.2s, RS41 T sensor time constants: 6.8
RH equilibration at time: 66.8s, RS41 RH sensor time constants: 1.9
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20210818_212946_P.4 203840012 Hurr Grace, 20210818N1 Gulfstream G-IV SP, N49RF
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 1.0s)
Levels created (in less than 1.0s)
WMO message coded (in less than 1.0s)
QC Data Recovery Statistics
1903 raw data records
49 ( 2.6%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
144 ( 7.6%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
14 ( 0.7%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 925 ( 48.6%) values, QC retained 860 ( 93.0%), overall rate: 45.2%
tdry : input file reported 923 ( 48.5%) values, QC retained 859 ( 93.1%), overall rate: 45.1%
RH : input file reported 910 ( 47.8%) values, QC retained 742 ( 81.5%), overall rate: 39.0%
winds: input file reported 1808 ( 95.0%) values, QC retained 1719 ( 95.1%), overall rate: 90.3%
QC Height Integration
Downward integration starts @ 14094.1m
QC for GPS Altitude
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the number of satellites check: 2
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: 5
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: 0
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: 5
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 Wind Determination
PTU/wind offset is 0.00s (PTU observations lead wind observations by 0.00s)