DOTSTAR ASTRA NCAR/EOL Dropsonde Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/209.101

Summary
During ITOP the National Taiwan University DOTSTAR Astra jet released a total
of 94 dropsondes in six flights over the Pacific Ocean near Taiwan during the
months of August, September, and October 2010. This data set includes the high
resolution (0.25 second winds and 0.5 second pressure, temperature and
humidity) DOTSTAR dropsonde data set in the EOL columnar ASCII sounding
format. This data set has undergone the NCAR/EOL quality control processing
and includes the calculated vertical winds. See the readme for details on the
QC process and data quality issues.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 209.101
 * doi:10.5065/D6HM56NP
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6HM56NP

Versions
  1.0
  1.2: This dataset has been corrected for a dry bias, the filenames have been
changed, and the directory changed.
  2.0: This dataset has been corrected for a temperature dependent dry bias and
the filenames have been changed.
  3.0: Version 3.0 was corrected for a temperature dependent relative humidity
and dewpoint dry bias. This is the most current version of the dataset.

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2016. DOTSTAR ASTRA NCAR/EOL
 Dropsonde Data. Version 3.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6HM56NP Accessed 20 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
 * ITOP: Impact of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/ITOP

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

Categories
 * Aircraft
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * DOTSTAR Astra
 * Dropwindsondes

Instruments
 * AVAPS - Airborne Vertical Atmosphere Profiling Systems
 * Dropsondes

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

Documentation
 * v3_20160930.readme.ITOP-2010.DOTSTAR.dropsondes.final.pdf [720 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/422E039C9F65/v3_20160930.readme.ITOP-2010.DOTSTAR.dropsondes.final.pdf

Related links
 * info: ITOP Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/itop-data-policy
 * homepage: ITOP Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/itop
 * info: ITOP 2010 Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/itop_2010/missions/missions.html

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2010-08-31 10:08:00 
 * End datetime: 2010-10-17 02:00:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 29.9126
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 17.01084
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: 116.36204
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: 130.96794

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/209.101?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/209.101?format=isotc211