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    <div class="eI1">Observation:</div>
    <div class="eI2"><h2>Soundings</h2></div>
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    <div class="eI1">Update:</div>
    <div class="eI2">5:00 UTC und 16:00 UTC</div>
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    <div class="eI2">12:00 UTC = 13:00 BST</div>
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    <div class="eI1">Variables:</div>
    <div class="eI2">Temperature, Dewpoint and Wind</div>
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    <div class="eI1">Description:</div>
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<b>Sounding </b>describes a plot of the vertical profile of temperature and dew point (and often winds) above a fixed location). 
Soundings are used extensively in severe weather forecasting, e.g., to determine instability, locate temperature inversions, 
measure the strength of the <b>cap</b> (capping inversion), obtain the convective temperature, 
<a href="http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/feature/cc270503.htm" target="_top"><b>CAPE</b></a> (Convective Available Potential Energy) 
and <b>CIN </b>(Convective Inhibition). <br><br>Soundings a usually carried out with an instrument called 
<a href="http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/feature/wf170103.htm" target="_top"><b>radiosonde</b></a> an the results are usually 
plotted in a so-called <b>skew-t / log (p) </b>diagram. 
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Horizontal lines represent height in pressure coordinates (millibars or hPa); diagonal lines represent temperature. 
Heavy solid lines show the vertical profile of observed temperature (red) and 
<a href="http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/feature/wf261001.htm" target="_top"><b>dew point</b></a> (blue). 
The grey line shows the temperature of a parcel of surface air and how its temperature would change if it would be lifted. 
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