National Weather Service Radiosonde Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.039

Summary
This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the Profiling of Winter
Storms (PLOWS) project. This data set includes 829 high vertical resolution
(1-second) Radiosonde Replacement System (RRS) soundings from the seven
National Weather Service (NWS) rawinsonde stations in the PLOWS 2008-2009 time
period (1 February to 31 March 2009) and region (Aberdeen, SD; Davenport, IA;
Green Bay, WI; Lincoln, IL; Chanhassen, MN; Omaha, NE; and Springfield, MO).
Additionally, 109 high vertical resolution (6-second) MicroArt soundings from
the Topeka, KS NWS rawinsonde station are included. For the 2009-2010 time
period of 1 November 2009 through 11 March 2010, 2221 high vertical resolution
(1-second) RRS soundings were collected. The soundings were typically released
twice a day (0000 and 1200 UTC). The data are in EOL Sounding Composite format
(columnar ascii).

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 113.039
 * doi:10.5065/D6WD3XW3
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6WD3XW3

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2010. PLOWS: National Weather Service
 Radiosonde Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6WD3XW3 Accessed 25 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
 * PLOWS: Profiling of Winter Storms
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PLOWS

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: 12 hourly
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Sounding
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Radiosondes

Instruments
 * Radiosondes

GCMD Science Keywords
 * 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
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND DIRECTION PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS

Documentation
 * readme_plows_nws_sounding.txt [18 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/41CE2F9ED70/readme_plows_nws_sounding.txt

Related links
 * info: PLOWS 2008-2009 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_08-09/missions/missions.html
 * info: PLOWS Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/plows-data-policy-draft
 * info: PLOWS EOL Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/plows
 * info: PLOWS 2009-2010 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_09-10/missions/missions.html

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2009-02-01 10:01:00 
 * End datetime: 2010-03-11 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 48.60
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 32.30
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -103.20
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -80.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: 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/113.039?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.039?format=isotc211