NOAA/NWS Rawinsonde Data

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the Physics of Stratocumulus Top (POST) project. This data set includes 121 high vertical resolution (6-second) soundings from the National Weather Service (NWS) rawinsonde station at Oakland, California for 01 July to 31 August 2008. The soundings were typically released twice a day (0000 and 1200 UTC).

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2008-07-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2008-08-31T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2008-08-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 37.70000
Bounding Box South Lat 37.70000
Bounding Box West Long -122.20000
Bounding Box East Long -122.20000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
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Documentation #1 : readme_post_nws_sounding.txt
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ESC: EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 15 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

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Publication Date 2010-01-29T14:38:42
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/13JP-SM3P-ND0K
Alternate Identifier 111.026
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:46:59Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::111.026
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2010). NOAA/NWS Rawinsonde Data. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/13JP-SM3P-ND0K. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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