ISS Radiosonde Data

The Inhibition of Snowfall by Pollution Aerosols (ISPA) was the third phase of a field campaign performed to better quantify the amount of water in snow pack lost due to pollution aerosols. The first and second phases of ISPA took place in 2002 and 2007. The third phase was conducted during January and February 2010. ISPA was organized by the Desert Research Institute (DRI) and each phase took place near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The primary site was located on Mount Werner at the Storm Peaks Laboratory (SPL), and a GPS Advanced Upper Air Sounding System (GAUS), operated by the NCAR Integrated sounding System, was located near the base of the Steamboat ski resort. A total of 32 radiosonde launches were made from the GAUS site. In addition to the radiosonde sounding system, there were a suite of surface meteorology instruments, a microwave radiometer, microwave rain radar and a laser distrometer.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2010-01-23T00:00:00Z
    End:  2010-02-26T00:25:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2010-01-23T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2010-02-26T00:25:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 40.46000
Bounding Box South Lat 40.46000
Bounding Box West Long -106.81000
Bounding Box East Long -106.81000
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Spatial Resolution N/A
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Documentation #1 : readme.ISPA-2010.GAUS.radiosondes.new.pdf
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Resource Format EOL Sounding Format (ASCII) (text/plain)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 13 MB
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Author NSF NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System Team
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Publication Date 2016-01-27T17:35:14
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D66T0JTF
Alternate Identifier 497.001
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:44:03Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::497.001
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation NSF NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System Team. (2016). ISS Radiosonde Data. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5065/D66T0JTF. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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