BALTEX: Sodankyla Radiosonde Data Set

This data set contains the high resolution (2 second) radiosonde observations for Sodankyla, Finland (WMO code: 02836; latitude: 67 22' 00,0" longitude: 26 37' 44,6" elevation: 179,2 m a.s.l). The data set consists of a gzipped tar files that will expand after untar into individual sounding files named in the form yymmddhh.dat. The files are in columnar ASCII. Data are available for the period 1 October 2002 through 31 December 2008.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2002-10-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2008-12-31T23:59:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2002-10-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2008-12-31T23:59:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 67.40000
Bounding Box South Lat 67.30000
Bounding Box West Long 26.60000
Bounding Box East Long 26.70000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : BALTEX_Sodankyla_ObservatorSiteA_20050101_20081231_readme.txt

Documentation #2 : BALTEX_Sodankyla_sonde.txt
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format TAR/GNU Zip (.tar.gz/.tgz) (application/x-gzip)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 142 MB
Legal Constraints

These data are restricted by a user agreement: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/41C823152D1/ceop_policy.html
Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization N/A
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Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Author Rigel Kivi
Esko Kyro
Timo Ryyppö
Publisher N/A
Publication Date 2010-04-07T07:34:00
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/VMAK-TV7W-KR0M
Alternate Identifier 76.193
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:48:48Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::76.193
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Rigel Kivi, Esko Kyro, Timo Ryyppö. (2010). BALTEX: Sodankyla Radiosonde Data Set. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/VMAK-TV7W-KR0M. Accessed 28 October 2025.

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