Upper-air Measurements at Santa Cruz, Costa Rica
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/590.014

Summary
This dataset contains iMet-4 radiosonde data collected during the Organization
of Tropical East Pacific Convection (OTREC) field campaign. This dataset
consists of ASCII files containing quality checked data. The Santa Cruz
radiosondes were launched from the University of Costa Rica campus in
collaboration with Marcial Garbanzo and Anna Maria Duran of the University of
Costa Rica. The team performed mandatory launches at 00 and 12 UTC, and often
more than two launches per day. 131 launches were performed from 20 Aug to 30
Sep 2019, which includes intensive launch periods.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 590.014
 * doi:10.26023/1YXF-N0Q1-VJ0C
   https://doi.org/10.26023/1YXF-N0Q1-VJ0C

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Sentic, S. 2020. Upper-air Measurements at Santa Cruz, Costa Rica. Version
 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/1YXF-N0Q1-VJ0C Accessed 25 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
 * OTREC: Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/OTREC

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 > U/V WIND COMPONENTS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES
 * 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 > VIRTUAL TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND DIRECTION PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION

Documentation
 * OTREC2019_SantaCruz_radiosondeQCed_readme.pdf [385 MiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/546FC250DDD84/OTREC2019_SantaCruz_radiosondeQCed_readme.pdf

Related links
 * companion: 590.015: Radiosonde Data from Limon, Costa Rica
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/590.015
 * companion: 590.013: Upper-air Measurements at Nuquí, Colombia
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/590.013
 * info: OTREC Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/otrec/missions
 * info: OTREC Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/otrec-data-policy
 * homepage: OTREC Home Page
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/otrec

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2019-08-20 23:45:00 
 * End datetime: 2019-09-30 07:52:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 15.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 2.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -90.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -73.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: Stipo Sentic
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2537

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/590.014?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/590.014?format=isotc211