NASA DC-8 NCAR/EOL Dropsonde Data

Dropsonde sounding profile data from the NASA DC-8 medium altitude research aircraft. A total of 95 dropsonde soundings were collected during 11 research flights primarily off the west coast of Central and South America. All 95 quality-controlled soundings are contained in the final dropsonde data set.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2007-06-28T00:00:00Z
    End:  2007-08-08T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2007-06-28T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2007-08-08T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 20.00000
Bounding Box South Lat -5.00000
Bounding Box West Long -96.00000
Bounding Box East Long -74.00000
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Spatial Resolution N/A
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Resource Format ASCII: ASCII Text (text/plain)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 19 MB
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Publication Date 2016-06-29T21:32:32
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D60P0X74
Alternate Identifier 501.001
Resource Version 1.1
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:44:06Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::501.001
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2016). NASA DC-8 NCAR/EOL Dropsonde Data. 1.1. https://doi.org/10.5065/D60P0X74. Accessed 24 October 2025.

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