Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe)

RadioSonde
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Installation
An Example
The Functions
getsonde
plotsonde
PWV(Precipitable Water Vapor)
skewt.axis
skewt.lines
skewt.points
plotwind
station.symbol
sample.sonde
Datasets
Discussion
a few more flights
Related sites
ATD's Rawinsonde Project
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RadioSonde

is a set of R functions that ingests common radiosonde datafiles into R and can create SKEW-T, log p diagrams and wind profile plots. Radiosondes are a very common instrument in the atmospheric sciences. Several thousand radiosondes are launched every day by the World Meteorological Organization and they provide data used by all the operational weather centers.

The SKEW-T, log p plot is the most common diagram to examine radiosonde data and shows the relationship of the current state of the atmosphere against families of curves that represent certain theoretical relationships.