Atmospheric River Recon
AR Recon Data
Dropsondes
Plot Descriptions: Top left: Vertically Integrated Water Vapor Transport (IVT) with magnitude shaded in units of kg m-1 s-1, direction indicated by vectors and mean sea level pressure contoured in hPa. Top right Integrated water vapor (IWV) with magnitude shaded in units of mm, 850-hPa wind vectors, and mean sea level pressure contoured in hPa. Bottom left: 500-hPa absolute vorticty shaded in x10-5 s-1, heights contoured in geopotential meters and winds. Bottom right: 250-hPa wind barbs with magnitude shaded in knots and heights contoured in geopotential meters. Markers on each plot represent dropsonde locations from each aircraft.
Data from each IOP are available here.
Dropsondes
Left: Vertically Integrated Water Vapor Transport (IVT) with magnitude shaded in units of kg m-1 s-1, direction indicated by vectors and mean sea level pressure contoured in hPa. Green point represents to the location of the dropseonde used to produce the skew-T diagram on the right. Right: Skew-T diagram for the location highlighted showing temperature (blue line), dew point (red line), wind (barbs) and water vapor flux (black line) throughout the atmosphere.