HURRICANE AND SEVERE STORM SENTINEL (HS3) GLOBAL HAWK ADVANCED VERTICAL ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING SYSTEM (AVAPS) DROPSONDE SYSTEM V2

Description

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Global Hawk Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) Dropsonde System dataset was collected by the Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS), built by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), which served as the dropsonde system for the Global Hawk aircraft during the HS3 campaign. Goals for HS3 included: assessing the relative roles of large-scale environment and storm-scale internal processes; and addressing the controversial role of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) in tropical storm formation and intensification as well as the role of deep convection in the inner-core region of storms. AVAPS dropsondes provide in-situ, high-vertical resolution measurements of atmospheric variables including pressure, temperature, humidity, geographic location, and winds, providing a vertical profile of the atmospheric conditions. The raw instrument measurement precision is as follows: pressure +-1.0 hPa, temperature +-0.2 degrees C, wind +-1 ms-1, and humidity +-7 percent. The measured information was transmitted via Iridium or Ku-Band satellite to the ground station where the Global Telecommunications System (GTS) performed additional processing for research and operational purposes.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=hs3avaps2
21 NASA Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission https://espo.nasa.gov/missions/hs3/
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/hs3/AVAPS/doc/HS3_AVAPS_Guide_V2.pdf
33 Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) 2014 Global Hawk Dropsonde Data Analysis Summary https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/AVAPS/doc/readme.V3.HS3-2014.GHdropsonde.pdf
33 Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) 2012 Global Hawk Dropsonde Project Analysis Summary https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/AVAPS/doc/readme.V5.HS3-2012.GHdropsonde.pdf
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
33 Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) 2013 Global Hawk Dropsonde Data Analysis Summary https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/hs3/AVAPS/doc/readme.V5.HS3-2013.GHdropsonde.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FHS3%2FAVAPS%2FDROPSONDE%2FDATA202
21 OPeNDAP server dataset access https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/opendap/fieldCampaigns/hs3/AVAPS/data/
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/projects/HS3

Tags

  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • weather-events
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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