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UMRBPP Upper Air: NOAA Wind Profiler Network Hourly Winds (Merriman, NE)

Summary

This data set contains the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 405 MHZ Wind Profiler Network (WPN) hourly data from the Merriman, NE site. Data are available for the periods from 5-19 and 22-25 April 1999. The profiler was not operational from 1200 UTC 19 April to 0200 UTC 22 April and from 2300 UTC 25 April to the end of the UMRBPP period of interest and no data are available during these time periods. This data consists of a series of hourly observations, each containing approximately 64 levels of wind speed and direction data. These data were not quality controlled by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Joint Office for Science Support (UCAR/JOSS).

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Additional information

Homepage	https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/35.011
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Related projects	UMRBPP: Upper Missouri River Basin Pilot Project
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	hourly
Language	English
Categories	Upper Air
Instruments	404 MHz Wind Profiler Wind Profilers
GCMD Science Keywords	BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS WIND DIRECTION WIND DIRECTION PROFILES WIND SPEED WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES Expand keywords
Documentation	npn_winds.txt [7 KiB]

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	1999-04-05 00:00:00
End datetime	1999-04-25 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 43.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 42.80
Minimum (West) Longitude: -101.80, Maximum (East) Longitude: -101.60

Primary point of contact information

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Additional contact information

originator: National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), NOAA

Citation

Example citation following ESIP guidelines:

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), NOAA. 1999. UMRBPP Upper Air: NOAA Wind Profiler Network Hourly Winds. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/35.011. Accessed 28 Jan 2021.

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