10.5065/D6125R0X
UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
PLOWS: 5mb Vertical Resolution Sounding Composite. Version 2.0
UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
2017
scientific data
Upper Air
Sounding
Dropwindsondes
Balloons/Rockets > > DROPWINDSONDES > > fa514134-ff56-47d1-bc02-6b8568ad21e7
Radiosondes
Balloons/Rockets > > RADIOSONDES > > 2516981b-e560-479d-ba96-f8edfb54efe9
NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System - ISS
NSF/NCAR C-130
Aircraft > > NSF/NCAR C-130 > NSF/NCAR Hercules C130 Aircraft > 3a59dbd3-86c4-47dd-aeb1-935c657aa544
Radiosondes
Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Passive Remote Sensing > Profilers/Sounders > > RADIOSONDES > > c79ff20c-08c1-41f5-8f68-13c1b6d34ba8
Dropsondes
Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Passive Remote Sensing > Profilers/Sounders >> DROPSONDES > > 68e079d2-303e-408c-932b-d98d2a3385e7
AVAPS - Airborne Vertical Atmosphere Profiling Systems
Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Passive Remote Sensing > Profilers/Sounders > > AVAPS > Airborne Vertical Atmosphere Profiling Systems > 147ad93c-4291-4aa6-a309-04094251772d
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND DIRECTION PROFILES
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED
PLOWS
Profiling of Winter Storms
University Corporation For Atmospheric Research (UCAR):National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR):Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL):Data Managment and Services (DMS)
UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Loehrer, Scot, loehrer@ucar.edu
NCAR/EOL/CDS
Cully, Linda, cully@ucar.edu
NCAR/EOL/CDS
Echo-Hawk, Linda, echohawk@ucar.edu
NCAR/EOL/CDS
2009-02-01T00:00:00Z/2010-03-11T23:59:59Z
2010-07-23T08:01:42Z
en
113.044
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/41CE73306B54/readme_plows_5mb_sounding_V2.html
http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_09-10/missions/missions.html
http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_08-09/missions/missions.html
10.5065/D6348HF9
10.5065/D6WM1BG0
10.5065/D66W9848
190 data files
1 ancillary/documentation file
83 MiB
EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
2.0
These data are available to be used subject to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ("UCAR") terms and conditions.
This Profiling of Winter Storms (PLOWS) 5mb Vertical Resolution Sounding Composite dataset contains upper-air sounding data interpolated to a constant vertical resolution of 5 hPa in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) Sounding Composite Format. For the PLOWS 2008-2009 field season, the dataset contains 979 soundings from stations in the following networks in the Profiling of Winter Storms 2008-2009 domain: NCAR Mobile Integrated Sounding System (MISS) GPS Advanced Upper-Air Sounding System (GAUS) Rawinsonde Data; National Weather Service (NWS) Rawinsonde Data; and University of Missouri Mobile Rawinsonde Data. For the PLOWS 2009-2010 field season, the dataset contains 2432 soundings from four platforms, the three mentioned above and the NSF/NCAR C-130. Data from the NWS stations are typically available every 12 hours (00 and 12 UTC) with occasional special releases. The NCAR MISS data are available at variable intervals during PLOWS 2008-2009 IOP-3 (26 February) and IOP-4 (8 March) and for PLOWS 2009-2010 IOP-7 (15-17 November 2009), IOP-8 (23-25 November 2009), IOP-9 (2-3 December 2009), IOP-10 (8-9 December 2009), IOP-14 (24 January 2010), IOP-15 (29-30 January 2010), IOP-17 (4-6 February 2010), IOP-18 (8-10 February 2010), IOP-19 (14-15 February 2010), IOP-21 (22 Febraury 2010), IOP-23 (1-3 March 2010), and IOP-24 (8-9 March 2010). The University of Missouri data are available at variable intervals during PLOWS 2008-2009 IOP-1 (11-12 February), IOP-2 (18 February), and IOP-5 (28 -29 March) and for PLOWS 2009-2010 IOP-7 (15-17 November 2009), IOP-8 (23-25 November 2009), IOP-9 (2-3 December 2009), IOP-10 (8-9 December 2009), IOP-13 (16-17 January 2010), IOP-14 (24 January 2010), and IOP-21 (22 Febraury 2010). The NSF/NCAR C-130 dropsondes were deployed only for the 2009-2010 field season and are available during IOP-6 (13 November 2009), IOP-8 (23-25 November 2009), IOP-10 (8-9 December 2009), IOP-11 (14-15 December 2009) and IOP-18 (8-10 February 2010).
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