Significant Wind LevelsThe beginning of section 6 may be identified in thecoded message by the indicator group 21212. Thissection is used to report winds at "significant windlevels." All observers on U.S. Navy ships, MarineCorps, and naval upper-air observers operating outsideWMO Region IV report significant level winds in thissection, and need not report any information in thePILOT reporting code. Synoptic stations and other landor mobile land stations within WMO Region IV do notinclude this group in the TEMP coded report. Instead,the Fixed Regional Level Winds are reported using theappropriate PILOT code message Parts B and D.Data for each significant wind level is contained intwo groups of five-digit numbers, nnPPP and ddfff,which are repeated for each level selected. The firstgroup for each level is used the same as in the significanttemperature levels: it contains the level identifier nnand the pressure level PPP. The second group, ddfff, isthe wind direction and speed. Encoding is the same as inpart A of the code. Levels of missing wind data arereported similarly to missing significant levels oftemperature and humidity.System Status and Seawater Temperature1-28Section 7 (Table 1-9), 31313 srrarasasa8GGgg9snTwTwTw, contains information on the rawinsondesystem used for the observation, the actual launch timeof the instrument, and the seawater temperature. The31313 is the section identifier.In the second group, srrarasasa, the sris the solarand IR radiation correction, found from WMO CodeTable 3849. MRS systems use code figure 4, solar andIR radiation corrected automatically by system. Therarais the code for the rawinsonde system used and isobtained from WMO Code Table 3685. The currentMRS system is reported by code 61 for the "Vaisala RS-80 Marwin." The sasais the tracking technique andsystem status, from WMO Code Table 3872. Code 05 isused with MRS equipment using VLF-Omegafrequencies. GPS equipped systems will use codefigure 08.The actual UTC time of the radiosonde release isentered in the fourth group following the 8 indicator. Ifthe radiosonde instrument is released at 1120Z, thegroup would read 81120.The seawater temperature group is only reported byships, and is deleted in reports from other stations. It isin the fourth group, which begins with the indicator 9.The sn, the sign of the temperature (0 for positive and 1for negative) is followed by the water temperature(TwTwTw) in tens, units and tenths of a degree Celsius.Cloud DataSection 8 (Table 1-9) reports cloud information inone group following the 41414 indicator group. TheNhCLhCMCHis the cloud group. The Nhis the sum ofall the low-etage clouds present, or if no low-etageclouds are present, the sum of all the mid-etage cloudspresent, in oktas (WMO Code Table 2700), and h is thecoded height above the surface of the lowest cloud layer(WMO Code Table 1600). The CL, CM, and CHrepresent, respectively, the predominant type of low-,mid-, and high-etage clouds from WMO Code Tables0513, 0515, and 0509.Regional CodesRegional codes are added to the international codefollowing the regional code indicator groups. In WMORegion IV, the required regional codes are specified inthe FMH-3. In Region IV, all regional data is reportedin “additional” data groups, commonly called the 101-groups, following the 51515 Regional code indicator.Other countries may use different regional codesfollowing any of the other regional code indicatorgroups 52525, 53535, . . ., 59595, and national codes61616, 62626, . . ., or 69696. Regional and nationalcodes for other countries are found in WMOPublication 306, Manual On Codes, Volume II,Regional Codes and National Coding Practices.The 101 -groups are five-digit groups following theformat 101 AdfAdf. The AdfAdfindicates the type ofdata being reported as listed in table 1-6. Actual datamay follow a "101-group" in additional code figuregroups. Only data pertaining to the sounding below the100-hPa level is reported with 101-groups in Part B.These groups can be used to report doubtful data,corrected data, or early transmission data. If thesounding terminates below the 100-hPa level, thereason for termination is also entered in this section.PART C - UPPER MANDATORY LEVELSPart C of the TEMP codes contains reports formandatory levels above the 100-hPa level. Themandatory levels reported in this section are the 70-hPa,50-hPa, 30-hPa, 20-hPa, and 10-hPa levels. Thissection uses the same format as Part A of the TEMPcode message, including identification data, mandatorylevel data for the levels above 100 hPa, tropopause data
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