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.

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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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Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name N/A
Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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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 2025-10-09T01:24:01Z
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 26 October 2025.

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