NWS High-Resolution Radiosonde Data

This is one of the upper air sounding data sets developed for the GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP) Large Scale Area - North West (LSA-NW) Enhanced Annual Observing Period 2000 (EAOP-00) conducted from 01 April 2000 to 31 March 2001. The LSA-NW domain extends from 90W to 115W longitude and 36N to 51N latitude. Included in this data set are 17 National Weather Service (NWS) rawinsonde stations in the LSA-NW domain. The soundings were typically released at 00 and 12 UTC, however, several stations had additional releases. The final data set includes pressure, dry bulb temperature, dew point temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, at 6-sec vertical resolution. Consult the readme file for further information.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2000-04-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2001-03-31T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2000-04-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2001-03-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 51.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 36.00000
Bounding Box West Long -115.00000
Bounding Box East Long -90.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
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Documentation #1 : nws_sondes.txt
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 1429 MB
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Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
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Author UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2011-08-24T11:09:17
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/X05X-VKZY-GE0X
Alternate Identifier 38.006
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:51:08Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::38.006
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. (2011). NWS High-Resolution Radiosonde Data. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/X05X-VKZY-GE0X. Accessed 23 April 2024.

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