Instrument: Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS)
AVAPS measures high resolution vertical profiles of ambient temperature, pressure, humidity, and GPS-based wind speed and wind direction.
ACCURACY | SAMPLING FREQUENCY | SPATIAL RESOLUTION | FALL SPEED |
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Temperature: 0.2 oC
Humidity: 2%
Wind speed: 0.5 m/s
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0.5 seconds (pressure, temperature, and humidity)
0.25 seconds (wind)
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10 m (vertical) | ~28 m/s (40,000 feet altitude) and 11.5 m/s (at sea level) |
DATASET NAME | GUIDE | PLATFORM | SOFTWARE |
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GPM Ground Validation Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) OLYMPEX | NASA DC-8 | none | |
HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM SENTINEL (HS3) GLOBAL HAWK ADVANCED VERTICAL ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING SYSTEM (AVAPS) DROPSONDE SYSTEM V2 | Global Hawk UAV | none | |
CAMEX-3 AIRBORNE VERTICAL ATMOSPHERE PROFILING SYSTEM (AVAPS) | NASA DC-8 | Panoply | |
NAMMA Raw DC-8 Dropsonde | NASA DC-8 | none | |
CAMEX-4 DC-8 DROPSONDE SYSTEM | NASA DC-8 | none | |
GRIP DC-8 DROPSONDE V3 | NASA DC-8 | none | |
CAMEX-4 ER-2 HIGH ALTITUDE DROPSONDE | NASA DC-8 | none | |
NAMMA DC-8 DROPSONDE | NASA DC-8 | none | |
GPM Ground Validation Upper Air Radiosonde OLYMPEX | NASA DC-8 | none |
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