{"id":18959,"date":"2021-06-15T11:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=18959"},"modified":"2021-06-15T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:16:29","slug":"using-nucaps-modified-unmodified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2021\/06\/15\/using-nucaps-modified-unmodified\/","title":{"rendered":"Using NUCAPS (Modified &amp; UnModified)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advantages to SHARP.py vs. AWIPS NSHARP.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/jYqbjKN7uyGfZ2aE14ll7xEaWNtKXyW2R0_E6Js1T-E0WaQEMUBtHXI1ahSnUSoIVg77MTHpvODQ-lCeiodnC21LfP6ptgOQ_VeFA1kHcdSveLd0EOlkUEOSkrQAkaxO1u-hjPjs\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NSHARP &#8211; AWIPS (Advantage is being able to see both modified &amp; unmodified soundings<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/sr2zIptmLaBolZkpeAhBcO0csSF76paFgvcMm46-T0aIQlKFaCOd-DbRbk5tNYdHKLc5gPaNeGTbnnyfiR1BeSLZ9shv97RpUcIWBuQfKJIQD6StpIC5SmnXnQB-8k3qWPpkjgAX\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SHARP.py (Advantage is the cleaning picture and able to display two or more soundings on the same backgrounding &#8211; Skew-T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c4\">How two passes of the NOAA-20 near the same location can be used to determine the small changes in the atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c4\">(Green\/Red &#8211; Moisture\/Temperature Profile at the 1842Z Pass)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/_jhRX607RAJm4GyGAmBDEZ8aUEts-bTA-iDPodpoPnsyxjJQJK9drUrme9wJu-I8vk9hD-tXijID95AE9KNh6XZGGsRmLQlxe2JEB9ZpCb7e492IeL2P2rgdX3vPuPf-EVmisMe6\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/GMIm1zLRCjTkFWxtnLknJXguZpEVi3Fmoah7axzvu-VM6wrqYieFUt7K-gw4rEvDlzXJYhc6twNyojxQb49Ihw_LTtE6WHYwbh9ErHLC0fvMWDneHLY4s5J_t3BhPEYlZNYRUn67\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c4\">(Green\/Red &#8211; Moisture\/Temperature Profile at the 2042Z Pass) Note the increase in moisture in the boundary layer which corresponds to the increase in CAPE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c4\">These two comparisons of the soundings within two hours of each pass showed how well the NUCAPS can be used for small differences in atmospheric moisture and instability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c4\">During this time period, there was a pronounced dry-line west of the sounding, and a synoptic scale front approximately 100 miles to the north of this NUCAPS sounding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c4\">Note where the dryline (Cumulus line over northeast Mt) was located and how you can use NUCAPS to show how capped or uncapped the atmosphere becomes in the afternoon with the NOAA-20 passes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/ZGtVNM7HUn18aVJGcNfP1wtK1QM1K1QbbxRVfwJylvjulD6mktcOzRijnbZhY4N0sLIs8KNnsZtafIYJn2RQzUbap-agNQ5z4iZ8hCnVJbyr181AOHJHs6722ZtzHoLDtMwb0_Vo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/R7wSri7_ChvlSFRetpmgZlScKw1mcOVM10DKHyrTN88c1lqNFf6llOJj9PPoSAhS2u6OiizqjJGdC0of8r3-Y6IK4xbhy7E0tNz9AsMTQn1lKgUWa6y9HQv5fuqni0unq-Ilwc6g\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; wxboy65<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advantages to SHARP.py vs. AWIPS NSHARP. NSHARP &#8211; AWIPS (Advantage is being able to see both modified &amp; unmodified soundings SHARP.py (Advantage is the cleaning picture and able to display&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2021\/06\/15\/using-nucaps-modified-unmodified\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nucaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18960,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959\/revisions\/18960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}