Skip to data content Skip to data search

Tethered Atmospheric Observation System (TAOS) Data [NCAR/EOL]

Project:

Summary

The Tethered Atmospheric Observing System (TAOS) used during the IHOP project was located one mile east of the Homestead site, on the south side of the road (Lat 36 deg 33.500 min N, Lon 100 deg 36.371 min W, Alt 850m). The tethered system is comprised of up to eight NCAR designed and built sensor platforms using the Vaisala RS-90 P, T and RH sensor package for these measurements. Wind speed comes from an R.M. Young propellor using an optical chopper. Wind direction comes from a Honeywell magnetometer which provides pitch and roll information in addition to direction. The sensor packages are tethered to a large balloon, and are spaced apart at various altitudes along a line attached to the balloon. Each transmits one second resolution data simultaneously over a period of time. The IHOP TAOS datasets were collected on June 12, 14 and 21 of 2002.

Data access

  • ORDER data for delivery by FTP

Additional information

Identifier
Data Quality final
Versions
  • 1.0 (2008-10-07)
Subscribe Subscribe to receive email when new or updated data is available.
Related projects
Spatial Type grid
Frequency 1 second
Language English
Categories
Platforms
Instruments
GCMD Science Keywords Expand keywords
Documentation
Related links

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime 2002-06-12 00:00:00
End datetime 2002-06-21 23:59:59

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 36.56, Minimum (South) Latitude: 36.56
Minimum (West) Longitude: -100.61, Maximum (East) Longitude: -100.61

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

Citation

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Parsons, D. 2008. Tethered Atmospheric Observation System (TAOS) Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D67M067X. Accessed 25 Apr 2024.

Today's date is shown: please replace with the date of your most recent access.

Additional citation styles

The citation text below is from the DataCite Content Resolver service and may take a few seconds to load. The styles and locales are obtained from CrossCite, which also provides a citation formatter. See ReFindit for another alternative. Formatting is not perfect: please verify and edit before use. Today's date is shown: please replace with the date of your most recent access.

Style: Locale:

Ancillary information

Metadata download

Note that your browser may not display the above metadata links, but automatically save them as files in a folder such as "Downloads"