Curacao Rawinsonde Data

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX). This data set includes 95 high vertical resolution (2 second) soundings from Curacao. (WMO 78988). Soundings were typically released twice per day (0000 and 1200 UTC) from 1 August to 8 October 2005. This dataset contains soundings released during hurricanes: Katrina and Ophelia.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2005-08-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2005-10-08T23:59:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2005-08-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2005-10-08T23:59:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 12.20000
Bounding Box South Lat 12.10000
Bounding Box West Long -69.00000
Bounding Box East Long -68.90000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : README_RAINEX_Curacao_sounding.html
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ESC: EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 22 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.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 datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

Author UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2008-10-07T06:50:45
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/YNY6-CQ3S-NE0T
Alternate Identifier 88.057
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-12-26T23:51:25Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::88.057
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. (2008). Curacao Rawinsonde Data. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/YNY6-CQ3S-NE0T. Accessed 16 June 2025.

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