Multi-Network Composite Highest Resolution Upper Air Data [NCAR/EOL]

This data set is a composite of radiosondes collected from 5 sounding platforms (see Section 2.3) during the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2 (VORTEX2) with data collected from 10 May 2009 through 13 June 2009 and from 1 May 2010 through 15 June 2010. This project was conducted in the central United States and contains a total of 4697 soundings. The 2009 data includes 2578 soundings with 241 high vertical resolution (2-sec) soundings from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility (C1) site near Lamont, OK, 106 radiosonde soundings from two mobile GPS Advanced Upper_Air Sounding (GAUS) systems operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 118 radiosonde soundings from two mobile GPS Advanced Upper_Air Sounding (GAUS) systems operated by the NOAA National Severe Storm Laboratory (NSSL), two high vertical resolution (2 sec) soundings from the West Texas Mesonet Reese Center, TX site, and 2111 soundings from 17 National Weather Service (NWS) sites (all but one have 1 sec vertical resolution, other is 6 sec). The 2010 data includes 2121 soundings with 182 high vertical resolution (2-sec) soundings from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility (C1) site near Lamont, OK, 174 radiosonde soundings from two mobile GPS Advanced Upper_Air Sounding (GAUS) systems operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 186 radiosonde soundings from two mobile GPS Advanced Upper_Air Sounding (GAUS) systems operated by the NOAA National Severe Storm Laboratory (NSSL), three high vertical resolution (2 sec) soundings from the West Texas Mesonet Reese Center, TX site, and 1576 soundings from 17 National Weather Service (NWS) sites (all but one have 1 sec vertical resolution, other is 6 sec). All soundings are provided at the highest possible resolution (i.e. the 'native' resolution).

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2009-05-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2010-06-16T00:00:00Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2009-05-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2010-06-16T00:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 45.45500
Bounding Box South Lat 31.94300
Bounding Box West Long -108.47700
Bounding Box East Long -92.26000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : Readme_VORTEX2_HiResComposite_soundings.html

Additional Information N/A
Resource Format EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 2941 MB
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Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Distributor UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

Author UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2010-11-05T10:00:33
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6RN366M
Alternate Identifier 114.116
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:49:35Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::114.116
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. (2010). Multi-Network Composite Highest Resolution Upper Air Data [NCAR/EOL]. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6RN366M. Accessed 29 March 2024.

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