NUCAPS Gridded LRs vs RAP

With the latest NUCAPS Gridded data arriving, decided to take a look at some of the mid level lapse rates to see how they are performing.  Overall, I think the NUCAPS data provides a good assessment of the mid level conditions in this case.

NUCAPS (left) and RAP (right) with a gridded 850-700mb Lapse Rates and 700-500mb LRs contoured.

We don't have the actual NUCAPS soundings yet, but will try to take a look a how the they look with the next scan.

-GOB