Progress toward High-Resolution, Real-Time Radiosonde Reports
Progress toward High-Resolution, Real-Time Radiosonde Reports
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10.1175/bams-d-15-00169.1
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2016-12
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B. Ingleby;P. Pauley;A. Kats;Jeff Ator;D. Keyser;A. Doerenbecher;E. Fucile;Jitsuko Hasegawa;E. Toyoda;T. Kleinert;Weiqing Qu;Judy St. James;W. Tennant;R. Weedon
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B. Ingleby;P. Pauley;A. Kats;Jeff Ator;D. Keyser;A. Doerenbecher;E. Fucile;Jitsuko Hasegawa;E. Toyoda;T. Kleinert;Weiqing Qu;Judy St. James;W. Tennant;R. Weedon
AbstractSome real-time radiosonde reports are now available with higher vertical resolution and higher precision than the alphanumeric TEMP code. There are also extra metadata; for example, the software version may indicate whether humidity corrections have been applied at the station. Numerical weather prediction (NWP) centers and other users need to start using the new Binary Universal Form for Representation of Meteorological Data (BUFR) reports because the alphanumeric codes are being withdrawn. TEMP code has various restrictions and complexities introduced when telecommunication speed and costs were overriding concerns; one consequence is minor temperature rounding errors. In some ways BUFR reports are simpler: the whole ascent should be contained in a single report. BUFR reports can also include the time and location of each level; an ascent takes about 2 h and the balloon can drift 100 km or more laterally. This modernization is the largest and most complex change to the worldwide reporting of radi...