Readme for Pibal (GTS-resolution) data (found on data/hires_sodne/level0/pibal) Prior to DYNAMO, 46 operational sounding sites in the large scale domain of the experiment were identified as Priority Sounding Sites (PSS). It was felt that data from these sites were important to providing an enhanced analysis over the large-scale DYNAMO domain. An effort was made to obtain the high vertical resolution sounding data for these sites, by sending requests to the weather service offices of most of the countries involved. While these requests were met with limited success, in the end hi-res data were provided by 21 of these sites. For the remaining 24 sites, the GTS-resolution data were collected during the field phase of the experiment. Because many sites experienced delays in sending their data over the GTS in real time, a post-experiment effort was made to retrieve a complete set of data for each of these PSS sites. This was done by accessing the data through the University of Wyoming sounding data server (http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html) which from past experience is believed to be quite complete. At each site, the GTS-resolution data were processed with gross limit checks. Objective QC flags were assigned and then these flags were adjusted by visual inspection of each sonde using the "xsnd" visual editor. For additional details on this QC process, please visit (http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/sondeqc/ or Ciesielski et al. 2011). The sites below contain only pibal data (winds as function height). Data is usually only in the lowest few kms of the troposphere and typically at 06 and 18Z. At two sites (94120 and 94150) data extends up to 100 hPa. 27 sites with pibal data WMO # lat lon station name # of pibal sondes 43192 15.48 73.82 Gao 2 43295 12.97 77.58 Bangalore 5 43333 11.67 92.72 Port Blair 7 48601 5.30 100.27 Penang/Bayan Lepas 402 48615 6.17 102.28 Kota Bharu 349 48650 3.10 101.65 Sepang 408 48657 3.78 103.22 Kuantan 298 48698 1.37 103.98 Singapore/Changi 327 94120 -12.42 130.88 Darwin 340 94150 -12.28 136.82 Gove 301 94170 -12.68 141.92 Weipa 3 96315 4.93 114.93 Brunei Airport 301 96413 1.48 110.33 Kuching 359 96441 3.20 113.03 Bintulu 374 96035 3.57 98.68 Medan/Polonia 189 96147 3.95 108.38 Ranai 83 96163 -0.88 100.35 Padang/Tabing 128 96471 5.93 116.05 Kota Kinabalu 402 96749 -6.12 106.68 Jakarta-Cengkareng 97 96935 -7.37 112.77 Surabaya/Juanda 156 97014 1.53 124.92 Manado/Sam Ratulang 85 97072 -0.68 119.73 Palu/Mutiara 10 97180 -5.06 119.55 Makassar 171 97372 -10.17 123.67 Kupang 97 97560 -1.18 136.11 Biak/Mokmer 88 97724 -3.70 128.08 Ambon/Pattimura 147 97980 -8.47 140.38 Merauke 76