National Weather Service High Resolution Radiosonde Data (EOL Format) [NCAR-EOL] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/488.002 Summary The National Weather Service (NWS) routinely releases radiosondes at 00 and 12 UTC with occasional special releases at sites throughout the United States. This data set includes the quality controlled Tropical Cyclone Intensity (TCI) NWS soundings released at sites near the locations of TCI flown tropical cyclones. TCI flew two storms in the Atlantic (Erika and Joaquin) and two storms in the eastern Pacific basin (Marty and Patricia). For Erika, this data set includes soundings from 25-30 August 2015 from Key West, Miami, Tampa Bay, and San Juan. For Joaquin, the included soundings are from 25 September to 6 October 2015 from Albuquerque, Albany, Birmingham, Amarillo, Brownsville, Buffalo, Caribou, Chatham, Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Greensboro, Fort Worth, Gray, Sterling, Lake Charles, Wilmington, Lincoln, Jackson, Slidell, Little Rock, Midland, Nashville, Norman, Pittsburgh, Blacksburg, Shreveport, Key West, Miami, Jacksonville, Charleston, Tampa Bay, Tallahassee, Newport, Upton, and San Juan. For Patricia, the included soundings are from 19-24 October 2015 from Brownsville and Corpus Christi. Marty was not near any NWS sounding locations. A total of 1059 quality-controlled, high vertical resolution (1-second) soundings are contained in the final TCI data set. On 2/6/2019, new soundings were added to this dataset to cover the time period when the High Ice Water Content (HIWC) Radar Study project was operating out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The 666 new soundings are from 8/9/2015 through 8/25/2015. Identifiers * Local archive identifier: 488.002 * doi:10.5065/D6FT8J8G https://doi.org/10.5065/D6FT8J8G Versions 1.0 Citation UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2016. National Weather Service High Resolution Radiosonde Data (EOL Format). Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6FT8J8G Accessed 19 Apr 2024. Additional citation styles can be generated by entering the DOI at CrossCite (https://citation.crosscite.org/). 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 * HIWC-RADAR-2015: High Ice Water Content (HIWC) Radar Study 2015 https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/HIWC-RADAR-2015 * TCI: Tropical Cyclone Intensity Experiment https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/TCI 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 WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS * 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 TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND DIRECTION PROFILES * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS Documentation * readme_HIWC_Radar_2015_NWS_radiosonde.pdf [616 KiB] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/52CC034A6E8DD/readme_HIWC_Radar_2015_NWS_radiosonde.pdf * readme_TCI_NWS_radiosonde.pdf [879 KiB] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/52CC03308956A/readme_TCI_NWS_radiosonde.pdf Related links * info: TCI Missions https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/tci/tools/missions * info: TCI Data Policy https://www.eol.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/files_live/private/TCI%20Data%20Policy_010616revised.pdf * homepage: TCI Home Page https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/tci Temporal coverage * Begin datetime: 2015-08-09 11:00:29 * End datetime: 2015-10-24 23:59:59 Spatial coverage * Maximum (North) Latitude: 46.868 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 18.431 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -106.623 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -65.992 Primary contact information * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1 Additional contact information * author: EOL Data Support https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1 * processor: Scot Loehrer https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/73 * processor: Linda Cully https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/136 * processor: Linda Echo-Hawk https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/815 Alternate metadata formats * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/488.002?format=datacite * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/488.002?format=isotc211