Ambient Equilibration
Cabin temperature: 25C
Sensor type: RS41
Ambient pressure: 695mb
Ambient temperature: 13C
Ambient RH: 94%
Temperature equilibration accuracy: 0.1C
RH equilibration accuracy: 5.0%
Temperature equilibration at time: 3.3s, RS41 T sensor time constants: 4.7
RH equilibration at time: -8.8s, RS41 RH sensor time constants: -0.4
Pressure: same equilibration time used as for temperature
Wind equilibration: 10.0s
Description
D20230909_101524_P.6 222010060 Hurricane Lee, 20230909I1 WP-3D, N43RF
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 less than 1.0s)
Levels created (in less than 1.0s)
WMO message coded (in less than 1.0s)
QC Data Recovery Statistics
915 raw data records
12 ( 1.3%) raw data records had PTU checksum errors
48 ( 5.2%) raw data records had GPS checksum errors
4 ( 0.4%) raw data records had both PTU and GPS checksum errors
pres : input file reported 447 ( 48.9%) values, QC retained 427 ( 95.5%), overall rate: 46.7%
tdry : input file reported 446 ( 48.7%) values, QC retained 427 ( 95.7%), overall rate: 46.7%
RH : input file reported 443 ( 48.4%) values, QC retained 430 ( 97.1%), overall rate: 47.0%
winds: input file reported 839 ( 91.7%) values, QC retained 810 ( 96.5%), overall rate: 88.5%
QC Height Integration
Downward integration starts @ 2907.8m
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 RawSats
Points which failed the limit check: 0
QC for RawWe
Points which failed the limit check: 0
QC for Relative Humidity
Points which failed the limit check: 0
Points which failed the buddy check: 4
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: 129
Points which failed the lower limit check: 0
Points which failed the upper limit check: 69
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: 1
Points which failed the wind error check: 4
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
Adjusted altitude of last wind is 998.1m, surface wind was not coded
PTU/wind offset is 0.00s (PTU observations lead wind observations by 0.00s)