Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS41
Ambient pressure: 230mb
Ambient temperature: -45C
Ambient RH: 50%
Temperature equilibration accuracy: 0.1C
RH equilibration accuracy: 5.0%
Temperature equilibration at time: 6.8s, RS41 T sensor time constants: 6.6
RH equilibration at time: 49.7s, RS41 RH sensor time constants: 1.6
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20210827_180039_P.1 204610653 TS Ida, 20210827N2 Gulfstream G-IV SP, N49RF
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 1.0s)
Levels created (in less than 1.0s)
WMO message coded (in less than 1.0s)
QC Data Recovery Statistics
3407 raw data records
62 ( 1.8%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
184 ( 5.4%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
7 ( 0.2%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 1661 ( 48.8%) values, QC retained 1588 ( 95.6%), overall rate: 46.6%
tdry : input file reported 1660 ( 48.7%) values, QC retained 1586 ( 95.5%), overall rate: 46.6%
RH : input file reported 1651 ( 48.5%) values, QC retained 1493 ( 90.4%), overall rate: 43.8%
winds: input file reported 3251 ( 95.4%) values, QC retained 3169 ( 97.5%), overall rate: 93.0%
QC Height Integration
Upward integration starts @ 0.0m
Downward integration starts @ 11588.7m
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: 21
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: 278
Points which failed the lower limit check: 0
Points which failed the upper limit check: 151
QC for Temperature
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 1
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: 7
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): 851.25s
Extrapolated surface time: 851.79s
Fall distance from last frame: 6.0m
Extrapolated surface pressure: 1016.4mb
Extrapolated surface temperature: 27.2C
Extrapolated surface rh: 78.0%
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)