NOAA N43 P-3 Dropsonde Data (.esc format)

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX). It includes 406 dropsondes from the NOAA P-3 N43RF aircraft. The data are 0.5 second vertical resolution. It includes dropsondes that occurred during Hurricanes Dennis (2005 Jul 5, 7, 9, and 10), Emily (2005 Jul 18), Gert (2005 Jul 24), Katrina (2005 Aug 25, 27, 28, and 29), Ophelia (2005 Sept 7, 8, 9, and 11) and Rita (2005 Sept 19-23).

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2005-07-05T00:00:00Z
    End:  2005-09-23T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2005-07-05T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2005-09-23T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 40.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 10.00000
Bounding Box West Long -100.00000
Bounding Box East Long -50.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
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Documentation #1 : readme_rainex_noaa_p3_n43_soundings.html
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 25 MB
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Author UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2008-10-07T06:50:45
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/1SSM-Z7ZP-GG0Z
Alternate Identifier 88.202
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:47:47Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::88.202
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. (2008). NOAA N43 P-3 Dropsonde Data (.esc format). 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/1SSM-Z7ZP-GG0Z. Accessed 17 April 2024.

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