Multi-Network Composite Highest Resolution Radiosonde Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/553.026

Summary
This data set contains a composite of the highest vertical resolution (i.e.
the “native resolution”) upper air sounding data from all sources for the
Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Meso-scale/micro-scale
Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) project in the EOL
Sounding Composite (ESC) columnar ASCII format. The data set contains 2714
soundings including the Colorado State University (CSU) mobile radiosondes
(105 soundings), the Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR) mobile
radiosondes (266 soundings), the University of Illinois (UIUC) mobile
radiosondes (206 soundings), the DOE/ARM CACTI soundings from their two sites
(1255 soundings), the INPE radiosondes from Sao Borja, Brazil (58 soundings),
as well as the radiosondes from six locations around central Argentina that
were operated by Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN; 824 radiosondes).

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 553.026
 * doi:10.26023/GKFF-YNBJ-BV14
   https://doi.org/10.26023/GKFF-YNBJ-BV14

Versions
  1.0
  1.1: Additional networks have been added to this composite.
  1.2: This version corrects an issue with the CSWR and UIUC radiosonde data
quality flags. CSWR noted that they mislabeled their dew point data
quality flag as a wind direction quality flag in their documentation and
these flags were translated into the EOL composite files. This version
has adjusted the flag translations to account for this. The only impacts
are to the qrh, qu, and qv data quality flags, no data values have been
changed.
  1.3: This version includes an update to the CSWR and UIUC radiosonde. The
surface wind speed and direction have been updated and they also added
additional some objective/subjective flags.

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2020. RELAMPAGO: Multi-Network
 Composite Highest Resolution Radiosonde Data. Version 1.3. UCAR/NCAR - Earth
 Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/GKFF-YNBJ-BV14 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
 * RELAMPAGO: Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And
Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/RELAMPAGO

Additional information
 * Frequency: criteria
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Sounding
 * Sounding Composites
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Radiosondes

Instruments
 * Radiosondes

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

Documentation
 * readme_RELAMPAGO_High_Res_Composite_V1.3.pdf [427 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5419EF50B3BA7/readme_RELAMPAGO_High_Res_Composite_V1.3.pdf

Related links
 * info: RELAMPAGO Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/relampago/tools/missions

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2018-10-15 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2019-04-30 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: -27.44
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: -36.593
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -69.60
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -55.99

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: 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/553.026?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/553.026?format=isotc211