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Various Data Formats


Flight Data Formats

NetCDF format
This is the NOAA-preferred data format as maintained by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
AOC Standard Tape format
This is the format the 1 second flight data as recorded on DAT tapes.
USAF data format
This is the format the 1 second flight data is sent to us from the USAFR 53rd WSR.

Radar Lower Fuselage Sweep format

SFMR wind data format

HURDAT Formats

Original HURDAT Format
Easy to Read HURDAT Format
The new HURDAT Format

Dropsonde Data Formats

HSA Format
HRD Spline Analysis format; ASCII table format where the numerical values of temperature, humidity, pressure, and winds are fit to a series of splines.

TEMPDROP Format
The TEMPDROP code for each sounding is an ASCII file of the TTAA & TTBB drop messages. One file for each drop.

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