Dropsonde for TC Maria (2018)

These dropsonde profiles collected during Typhoon Maria (2018). These dropsondes were released from a chartered flight to obtain the in-situ observations. The dropsonde has equipped with sensors of GPS antenna, GPS receiver, pressure, temperature and temperature. The data was transmitted back to the ground through satellite phone, followed the analysis and quality control procedure by using the ASPEN (Atmospheric Sounding Processing Environment) software which is provided from UCAR. Similar data had been widely used in several studies, such as Liu et al. (2014), Liu et al. (2016) and Liu et al. (2020).

Reference:

Liu, C.-Y.*, G.-R. Liu, T.-H. Lin, C.-C. Liu, H. Ren, and C.-C. Young (2014), Using Surface Stations to Improve Sounding Retrievals from Hyperspectral Infrared Instruments, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens, 52, 11, 6957-6963, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2014.2305992

Liu, C.-Y.*, J. Li, S.-P. Ho, G.-R. Liu, T.-H. Lin, and C.-C. Young (2016), Retrieval of Atmospheric Thermodynamic State from Synergistic Use of Radio Occultation and Hyperspectral Infrared Radiances Observations, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, Vol. 9, no. 2, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2444274

Liu, C.-Y.*, C.-H. Chiu, P.-H. Lin, and M. Min (2020), Comparison of Cloud‐Top Property Retrievals from Advanced Himawari Imager, MODIS, CloudSat/CPR, CALIPSO/CALIOP, and radiosonde, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi: 10.1029/2020JD032683