Sample Screen Displays from the New RRS Computer 

RRS upper-air soundings will be processed with a modern workstation PC.  The software will be windows based allowing for multiple displays of data to appear on the same screen.  Next to the PC is a GPS Radiosonde

Below are some samples of actual screen displays from the RRS workstation currently under development...

Once a flight is started, this screen appears showing the orientation correction display.  Note that the ground tracking system (TRS-Telemetry Receiving System) can be controlled and monitored from the workstation. Status messages during preflight and the sounding are logged automatically or can be typed in manually by the observer.  Overlaying  the Flight Status Messages is the SPS (Signal Processing System) Status window that shows, among other data, the number of GPS Satellites that have "locked" onto the GPS radiosonde (shows zero).

The next display shows the administrative data that needs to be entered. Most of the information is automatically entered by the software.

Next, the flight equipment data display appears.

After filling in the flight equipment data, the surface weather observation data display appears.

Next the radiosonde is baselined.  Actual radiosonde values/statistics can be viewed and the baseline accepted or rejected.

Once the baseline is completed the radiosonde is ready for release.  Note the logged status messages.

RRS automatically detects and logs the time of the balloon release by monitoring the change in the radiosonde pressure data (pressure starts to decrease).

Here's the Status Message Display showing logged messages. The last message was typed in by the observer.

Once the radiosonde is aloft raw data from the radiosonde can be displayed.

Several tabular displays of the upper-air data can be displayed (overlaid as shown or side by side) . The WMO Levels Tabular Display is shown above.  Note that missing data is high-lighted in red.

Here's a display of the temperature data. Graph scale/units on the x and y axis and plot colors are configurable for most graphical plots.

Here's the relative humidity display.

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