FIRE: CLASS Soundings

This sounding data is from the First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE). NCAR's Cross Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System (CLASS) rawinsonde data consist of vertical profiles of pressure, temperature, relative humidity and wind speed/direction from three stations. Data from each CLASS station is in raw ascii format Data is ordered by station plus the mobile CLASS. Data have three versions of a given sounding: an "x" version that includes 10-second intervals, in"i" version with data interpolated to every 5mb level, and an "m" version with 1-sec raw data with data flags collected during the sonde ascent. Files are named according to the following convention: amddhhmm.sta

where

a refers to the file type (either "i", "x", or "m")

m is the month of the data (values 1-9,a-c; b=Nov)

dd day of month

hh hour of day of sounding start

mm minute of day for sounding start (hhmm is approximate)

sta three-letter station ID

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1986-10-13T00:00:00Z
    End:  1986-12-07T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1986-10-13T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1986-12-07T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 47.19700
Bounding Box South Lat 41.25300
Bounding Box West Long -96.98500
Bounding Box East Long -84.53300
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII: ASCII Text (text/plain)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 36 MB
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Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
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Publication Date 2014-07-11T18:22:37
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V986BS
Alternate Identifier 163.008
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:03:07Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::163.008
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2014). FIRE: CLASS Soundings. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V986BS. Accessed 26 August 2025.

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