The NCAR GPS Dropwindsonde and its impact on hurricane operations and research

The Global Positioning System dropwindsonde has provided thousands of high-resolution kinematic and thermodynamic soundings in and around tropical cyclones (TCs) since 1997. These data have revolutionized the understanding of TC structure, improved forecasts, and validated observations from remote-sensing platforms. About 400 peer-reviewed studies on TCs using these data have been published to date. This paper reviews the history of dropwindsonde observations, changes to dropwindsonde technology since it was first used in TCs in 1982, and how the data have improved forecasting and changed our understanding of TCs.

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  2023

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  Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS)

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  2023-09-26

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  DOI 10.1175/bams-d-22-0119.1
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