Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS41
Ambient pressure: 149mb
Ambient temperature: -70C
Ambient RH: 100%
Temperature equilibration accuracy: 0.1C
RH equilibration accuracy: 5.0%
Temperature equilibration at time: 8.5s, RS41 T sensor time constants: 6.9
RH equilibration at time: 71.6s, RS41 RH sensor time constants: 2.0
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20210926_231157_P.2 212640826 Hurricane Sam, 20210926N1 Gulfstream G-IV SP, N49RF
Data type: AVAPS SOUNDING DATA, Channel 2
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 2
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
3087 raw data records
34 ( 1.1%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
139 ( 4.5%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
13 ( 0.4%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 1517 ( 49.1%) values, QC retained 1467 ( 96.7%), overall rate: 47.5%
tdry : input file reported 1516 ( 49.1%) values, QC retained 1465 ( 96.6%), overall rate: 47.5%
RH : input file reported 1509 ( 48.9%) values, QC retained 1317 ( 87.3%), overall rate: 42.7%
winds: input file reported 3009 ( 97.5%) values, QC retained 2886 ( 95.9%), overall rate: 93.5%
QC Height Integration
Downward integration starts @ 14336.0m
QC for GPS Altitude
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the number of satellites check: 8
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: 22
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: 567
Points which failed the lower limit check: 0
Points which failed the upper limit check: 209
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: 12
Points which failed the wind error check: 10
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)