NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Hourly RASS Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/100.020

Summary
This data set contains the hourly temperature profiles from the Radio Acoustic
Sounding System from a limited set of the NOAA Profiler Network stations
(primarily in KS, OK and TX). These data are provided by NOAA/ESRL. The data
are provided in daily tar files.

Data files are not available from 2008-01-23 to 2011-04-07.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 100.020
 * doi:10.26023/P4FD-PXZE-BA00
   https://doi.org/10.26023/P4FD-PXZE-BA00

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL). 2012. NOAA Profiler Network
 (NPN) Hourly RASS Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/P4FD-PXZE-BA00 Accessed 18 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * MPEX: Mesoscale Predictability Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/MPEX
 * Operational: Operational Datasets
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/Operational
 * SAS: The Southeast Atmosphere Study
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/SAS
 * DC3: Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry Project
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/DC3
 * OWLeS: Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/OWLeS

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: hourly
 * Language: English

ISO Topic Categories
 * climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Categories
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Fixed Observation Stations

Instruments
 * NOAA Profiler
 * Radio Acoustic Sounding System - RASS
 * Wind Profilers

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VIRTUAL TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2002-02-14 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2014-09-09 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 66.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 30.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -151.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -87.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1210

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/100.020?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/100.020?format=isotc211