NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Observations, 1992May-continuing

The NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) has 35 unmanned Doppler Radar sites in 18 central US states and Alaska. They provide hourly vertical profiles of wind data. The hourly netCDF files disseminated from Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) of NOAA starting from May 1992 are archived in this dataset. It continues to be updated monthly.

U and V wind components from 500 meters above ground level to 16.25 kilometers are recorded at every 250m increment. Several stations may have been moved or added. Problems of bird contamination are also reported. Flags are used to indicate the quality of data.

A detailed description of the NOAA Profiler Network is available at NCEP's NPN site [https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/madis_npn.shtml].

To Access Resource:

Questions? Email Resource Support Contact:

  • Chi-Fan Shih
    chifan@ucar.edu
    UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1992-05-14
    End:  2006-03-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1992-05-14
Temporal Range End 2006-03-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 12622 MB
Legal Constraints

Use of this dataset is subject to UCAR's Terms of Use, except that commercial use is generally not prohibited.
Access Constraints Registration on the RDA web site is a requirement for access to the data.
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Global Systems Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1993-07-06
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier ds359.0
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2024-01-03T15:11:38-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds359.0
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Global Systems Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (1993). NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Observations, 1992May-continuing. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds359.0/. Accessed 19 April 2024.

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