GRIP NASA DC-8 Quality Controlled Dropsonde Archive

This data set contains dropsonde data from the NASA DC-8 medium altitude research aircraft. A total of 328 quality-controlled dropsonde soundings were released during 16 research flights, and are contained in the final dropsonde data set.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2010-08-15T00:00:00Z
    End:  2010-09-30T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2010-08-15T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2010-09-30T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 36.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 10.00000
Bounding Box West Long -100.00000
Bounding Box East Long -50.00000
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format N/A
Standardized Resource Format UNDEFINED FORMAT
Asset Size 113 MB
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Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email eol-datahelp@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 eol-datahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

Author UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2016-09-16T17:15:23
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/doi:10.5065/D6XG9PHJ
Alternate Identifier 502.002
Resource Version 3.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2021-10-01T16:05:10Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::502.002
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. (2016). GRIP NASA DC-8 Quality Controlled Dropsonde Archive. 3.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/doi:10.5065/D6XG9PHJ. Accessed 25 October 2025.

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