NCAR/EOL Driftsonde Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/110.080

Summary
Driftsonde sounding data for the THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign
(T-PARC) project. The files are in EOL format, an ascii text format including
a header and typically seventeen columns of high resolution data. See the
Documentation for a more complete descrition of this data set.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 110.080
 * doi:10.5065/D64J0C98
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D64J0C98

Versions
  1.0
  2.0: This version has been corrected for a temperature dependent dry bias.

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2017. T-PARC: NCAR/EOL Driftsonde
 Data. Version 2.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.5065/D64J0C98 Accessed 25 Apr 2024.

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at CrossCite (https://citation.crosscite.org/).

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
 * T-PARC: THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC)
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/T-PARC

Additional information
 * Frequency: no set schedule
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Sounding
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Driftsonde
 * Dropwindsondes

Instruments
 * Dropsondes

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND DIRECTION PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES

Documentation
 * readme.V2.TPARC2008.driftsonde.pdf [819 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/41C0C3409B1F/readme.V2.TPARC2008.driftsonde.pdf

Related links
 * info: T-PARC Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/tparc_2008/missions/index.html
 * info: T-PARC Project Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/t-parc-data-policy-draft
 * homepage: T-PARC Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/t-parc

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2008-08-19 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2008-09-29 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 35.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 0.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: 170.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -140.00

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

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/110.080?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/110.080?format=isotc211