San Jose, Costa Rica UCR-IMN Rawinsonde Data

This data set includes 324 high vertical resolution (2-sec) soundings from the San Jose, Costa Rica sounding site (WMO 78762) from 16 June to 30 September 2004. This station is located at 10.00 North Latitude and 84.21 West Longitude and 921. These soundings were provided by the Universidad de Costa Rica-Instituto Meteorologico Nacional (UCR-IMN). During the period from 17 June to 5 September 2004 San Jose released four soundings per day at 0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC each day. For the period from 6 to 30 September 2004 San Jose released one sounding per day at 1200 UTC (except on Sundays when no soundings were released). The IMN home page can be found here: http://www.imn.ac.cr. This station used both Vaisala RS80-15G and RS90-AG radiosonde models during NAME.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2004-06-16T00:00:00Z
    End:  2004-09-30T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2004-06-16T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2004-09-30T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 10.01000
Bounding Box South Lat 9.99000
Bounding Box West Long -84.22000
Bounding Box East Long -84.20000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : README_SanJose_sounding.html
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ESC: EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 86 MB
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Author UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Universidad de Costa Rica-Instituto Meteorologico Nacional
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2011-08-24T11:09:17
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/YVQW-8S0R-SD0W
Alternate Identifier 82.039
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-12-26T23:51:04Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::82.039
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Universidad de Costa Rica-Instituto Meteorologico Nacional. (2011). San Jose, Costa Rica UCR-IMN Rawinsonde Data. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/YVQW-8S0R-SD0W. Accessed 19 June 2025.

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