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The GRIP DC-8 Dropsonde V3 dataset consists of atmospheric pressure, dry-bulb temperature, dew point temperature, relative humidity, wind direction, wind speed, and fall rate measurements taken during 16 research flights during the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) campaign from August 17, 2010 to September 22, 2010. The GRIP campaign was conducted to better understand how tropical storms form and how these storms develop into major hurricanes. The DC-8 Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) deploys integrated, highly accurate, GPS-located atmospheric profiling dropsondes to measure and record current atmospheric conditions in a vertical column below the aircraft. The dropsondes are ejected from a tube in the underside of the DC-8 aircraft. As the dropsonde descends to the surface via a parachute, it continuously measures and transmits data to the aircraft using a 400 MHz meteorological band telemetry link. Pressure, temperature and relative humidity, as well as GPS-based wind data were collected from 328 dropsondes. These Dropsonde data are in ASCII-csv file format.

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Format	Description	Link
21	Instructions for citing GHRC data	https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21	Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link	https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=gripdropdc83
21	The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset	https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/GRIP
21	Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI.	https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGRIP%2FDROPSONDE%2FDATA202
21	NCAR UCAR Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) Avaps Dropsonde System	https://www.eol.ucar.edu/observing_facilities/avaps-dropsonde-system
33	The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset	https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/grip/Dropsonde_DC8/doc/gripdropdc83_dataset.pdf

GRIP DC-8 DROPSONDE V3

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