NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Observations, 1992May-continuing

The NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) has 35 unmanned Doppler Radar sites in 18 central US states and Alaska. They provide hourly vertical profiles of wind data. The hourly netCDF files disseminated from Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) of NOAA starting from May 1992 are archived in this dataset. It continues to be updated monthly.

U and V wind components from 500 meters above ground level to 16.25 kilometers are recorded at every 250m increment. Several stations may have been moved or added. Problems of bird contamination are also reported. Flags are used to indicate the quality of data.

A detailed description of the NOAA Profiler Network is available at NCEP's NPN site [https://madis.ncep.noaa.gov/madis_npn.shtml].

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1992-05-14
    End:  2006-03-31

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1992-05-14
Temporal Range End 2006-03-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 12622.803 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name N/A
Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

Author Global Systems Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Publication Date 1993-07-06
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier d359000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2026-02-26T01:05:56Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d359000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Global Systems Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (1993). NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Observations, 1992May-continuing. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d359000. Accessed 18 March 2026.

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