Gan MMS Radiosonde L3 Data (ESC Format) [NCAR/EOL]

Summary

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) 2011-2012 project. This data set includes 184 high vertical resolution (2-sec) soundings from the Addu Atoll, Gan Island, Maldives site, collected before and towards the end of the DYNAMO field campaign by the Maldives Meteorological Service (MMS). MMS conducted the releases from this site before the field phase daily at 12 UTC nominal time from 15 June to 30 September 2011. Also after the Maldivian political crisis the MMS conducted the soundings after ARM personnel departed from the site. Releases were daily at the 12 UTC nominal time from 12 February to 5 March 2012 and twice daily (00 and 12 UTC) from 6-30 March and then back to daily at 12 UTC from 1-8 April 2012. The soundings taken by ARM personnel from 22 September 2011 to 9 February 2012 are included in a separate data set.

This station used Vaisala RS92-SGP radiosondes with GPS windfinding.

Data access

• ORDER data for delivery by FTP
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Additional information

Homepage	https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/347.143
Metadata download	Text DataCite ISO/TC 211 Note that your browser may not display the above metadata links, but automatically save them as files in a folder such as "Downloads"
Related projects	DYNAMO: Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	criteria
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosonde, Vaisala RS92-SGP Radiosondes
Instruments	Radiosondes
GCMD Science Keywords	ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS DEW POINT TEMPERATURE GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE VERTICAL PROFILES WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED Expand keywords
Documentation	Readme_DYNAMO_Gan_MMS_soundings.html [18 KiB]
Related links	companion: 347.008: Gan ARM AMF Radiosonde L3 Data (ESC Format) [NCAR/EOL]

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2011-06-15 06:00:00
End datetime	2012-04-08 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: -0.69, Minimum (South) Latitude: -0.69
Minimum (West) Longitude: 73.15, Maximum (East) Longitude: 73.15

Primary point of contact information

EOL Data Support <eol-datahelp@ucar.edu>

Citation

Example citation following ESIP guidelines:

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2013. Gan MMS Radiosonde L3 Data (ESC Format). Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/347.143. Accessed 22 Sep 2019.

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