AirborneVerticalAtmosphericProfilingSystem

Measurements Made and Methods Used

Measurements Provided: Soundings of temperature, humidity, and wind from the altitude of the aircraft to the surface
Manufacturer or Builder of the Instrument: NCAR/EOL/ISSF

Operational Status:
- still under development
General Description:
- This is a development project scheduled for completion in early 2013. The "Documentation" section at the end of this page includes a link to a presentation describing plans for this project, and (internal to EOL) there is a project charter and a project requirements document available on EOL web pages. Additional aspects of this instrument will be added to this page once the development project is concluded.
Measurement Characteristics:
- Overall estimate of uncertainty:
- Response time:
- Precision:
- Other measurement characteristics (comments on signal/noise, bias limits, etc):

Description of Software, Data Handling, and Data Flow:
- Software Components (data acquisition, display, processing, and analysis):
- Data Processing Chain (from flight to archival): Data from the sondes are recorded on the aircraft and subsequently processed by NCAR/EOL/ISF, which provides quality-controlled soundings using the "Aspen" software program. For information on the formats and that program, see http://www.eol.ucar.edu/data/software.
QA Procedures and Needs:

Lead Contacts

Documentation

Descriptive Publications

Documentation of the Processing Algorithm(s): See the Technical Note on Processing Algorithms at this URL (fix when available)

Internal users: See http://wiki.eol.ucar.edu/rafscience/AirborneVerticalAtmosphericProfilingSystem (last edited 2012-12-08)