The forecasted vertical soundings above Paranal were recovered in real time during the campaign from the GFS
forecast pages at the Air Resources Laboratory.
A useful real time product is the
Skew-T LogP Diagram.
Hints about the graphs below:
- Provided that GFS gives data by intervals of 3 hours, the "forecast rectangle"
displayed on the graphs are plotted centered on the hour for which
the forecast has been computed by the model.
E.g.: for a forecast time set to 300UT, the rectangle will be displayed
from 130UT up to 430UT.
- When no particular CRITICAL inversion layer is forecasted, no rectangle
is displayed. For a whole night, a note appears in the right bottom of the graph.
- GFS data are missing for the night of the 19-20 UT. This is noted on the graph.
Please remind that only the CRITICAL layers have been plotted !
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