National Weather Service High Resolution Radiosonde Data

This data set includes 1726 quality controlled NWS (National Weather Service) soundings released at 14 sites throughout the western United States during the WE-CAN (Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption and Nitrogen) field phase (20 July to 19 September 2018). Thirteen of the stations are available at 1-second vertical resolution (1608 soundings) and one station is available at mandatory and significant level resolution (118 soundings).

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2018-07-20T00:00:00Z
    End:  2018-09-19T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2018-07-20T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2018-09-19T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 47.93500
Bounding Box South Lat 36.04700
Bounding Box West Long -124.56000
Bounding Box East Long -104.88000
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : readme_WECAN_NWS_radiosonde.pdf
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ESC: EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 1226 MB
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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
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Publication Date 2019-06-18T15:28:00
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/8Y80-QZE6-130N
Alternate Identifier 548.040
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:04:59Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::548.040
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2019). National Weather Service High Resolution Radiosonde Data. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/8Y80-QZE6-130N. Accessed 05 August 2025.

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