ABLE Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS) [ABLE]

Summary

This data set contains hourly profiles of virtual temperature from the Atomospheric Bounder Layer Experiments (ABLE) Radio Acoustic Sounding System (RASS) operated by the Argonne National Laboratory in the Walnut River Watershed in Butler County Kansas (east of Wichita). During the BAMEX period three RASS were in operation. Data cover the period from 20 May to 7 July 2003. The data are in ASCII format.

Data access

ORDER data for delivery by FTP

Additional information

Related projects: BAMEX
Observational frequency: hourly
Spatial type: point
Categories: Sounding
Platforms: RASS,NCAR/ISS
Documentation: profiler_ABLE_rass.htm [10 KB]

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime: 2003-05-20 00:00:00, End datetime: 2003-07-07 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Minimum latitude: 37.000000, Minimum longitude: -98.000000
Maximum latitude: 38.000000, Maximum longitude: -96.000000

Point of contact

Richard L. Coulter
Argonne National Lab
E-Mail address: rl_coulter at anl dot gov