In a just world, these sondes would be replaced, and then a third party team of researchers (slave-labor grad students) could be tasked to "red-flag" all the likely-bad soundings in the RAOB archive. Then the gov't should take Lockheed-Martin to court to refund the cost of the bad sondes, assuming the sondes were "base-lined" properly before release.
Unfortunately, HMTs at some offices are in the practice of baselining from indoors...making it difficult to tell how the RH sensor is performing. Not being RRS-trained, it may not be possible to baseline outside. There's a GPS-repeater inside each office for baselining the GPS... I'm not 100% sure if the T/RH/Pressure are also baselined at that point.I'll look into this, unless someone with more knowledge can chime in.It would be awesome to send back hundreds upon hundreds of bad sondes to Lockheed if the sensors could be determined bad pre-release! :)
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