Tethered Atmospheric Observation System (TAOS) Data [NCAR/EOL]
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/77.132

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.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 77.132
 * doi:10.5065/D67M067X
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D67M067X

Versions
  1.0

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 26 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
 * IHOP_2002: International H2O Project 2002
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/IHOP_2002

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: grid
 * Frequency: 1 second
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Balloons

Instruments
 * Tethersondes

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

Documentation
 * readme.ihop_taos [3 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/4187697B/readme.ihop_taos

Related links
 * homepage: IHOP 2002 Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/ihop2002
 * info: IHOP 2002 Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/ihop/catalog/missions.html
 * info: IHOP 2002 Data Policy
   https://archive.eol.ucar.edu/projects/ihop/dm/IHOP_datapolicy.html

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

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 36.56
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 36.56
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -100.61
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -100.61

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
 * originator: Dave Parsons <dparsons@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/425

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/77.132?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/77.132?format=isotc211