CaPE CLASS Sounding Data

NCAR's Cross Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System (CLASS) rawinsonde data consist of vertical profiles of pressure, temperature, relative humidity and wind speed/direction from a network of seven stations (6 fixed, 1 mobile). No set schedule was used but often 3-hourly soundings from 1100- 2300 UTC. Final datasets include 10 sec and interpolated 5 mb resolutions. Data is ordered by the last 3 letters of the station location. Station tco data is in individual raw ascii files from data taken during soundings. Most other stations have two or three ascii files of comments, README or dailty data recovery rate information, plus tar files of data.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1991-07-08T00:00:00Z
    End:  1991-08-18T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1991-07-08T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1991-08-18T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 30.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 27.00000
Bounding Box West Long -84.00000
Bounding Box East Long -80.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format TAR: Unix Tape ARchive (TAR) Format File (application/x-tar)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 343 MB
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Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Publication Date 2011-09-14T17:35:51
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D63B5XDR
Alternate Identifier 2.1
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:03:13Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::2.1
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2011). CaPE CLASS Sounding Data. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5065/D63B5XDR. Accessed 05 August 2025.

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