Upper Air - NWS High Resolution Soundings

Summary

This data set consists of soundings taken at ten National Weather Service (NWS) Rawinsonde sites during CASES-99. Quality control on this data set has been performed by UCAR/JOSS. This data set includes pressure, temperature, dew point, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and altitude. Refer to the README file for details.

Data access

• ORDER data for delivery by FTP
• Preview dataset (plots/images)

Additional information

Related projects: CASES-99
Observational frequency: no set schedule
Spatial type: point
Categories: Sounding
Platforms: Rawinsonde, CLASS
Documentation: nws_sondes.txt [17 KB]

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime: 1999-10-01 00:00:00, End datetime: 1999-10-31 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Minimum latitude: 32.000000, Minimum longitude: -105.000000
Maximum latitude: 42.000000, Maximum longitude: -90.000000

Point of contact

Kathryn Young
NCAR/ATD
E-Mail address: kbeierle at ucar dot edu