Soundings Multi-Network Composite 5-mb Level Upper Air Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/87.015

Summary
This dataset contains upper-air sounding data interpolated to a constant
vertical resolution of 5 hPa in the National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR) Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) Sounding Composite Format from
stations in the following networks: NCAR GAUS, NCAR/NSF C-130 Dropsonde, NOAA
National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS), and the R/V Seward Johnson Data for the
Rain in Cumulus Over the Ocean (RICO) 2004-2005 domain (15°N to 21°N latitude
and 75°W to 72°W longitude) are contained within this dataset. The dataset
covers the time period 1 December 2004 through 31 January 2005. This RICO
2004-2005 Sounding Composite 5-mb Resolution Upper-Air Dataset contains 554
soundings from 4 sites.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 87.015
 * doi:10.5065/D6862DSH
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6862DSH

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2008. RICO: Soundings Multi-Network
 Composite 5-mb Level Upper Air Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing
 Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6862DSH 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
 * RICO: Rain in Cumulus Over the Ocean
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/RICO

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: no set schedule
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Sounding
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Dropwindsondes
 * NCAR/EOL GAUS/GLASS/CLASS Radiosonde
 * NSF/NCAR C-130
 * R/V Seward Johnson
 * Radiosondes
 * Ships

Instruments
 * AVAPS - Airborne Vertical Atmosphere Profiling Systems
 * Dropsondes
 * Radiosondes

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

Documentation
 * README_RICO_5mb_sounding.html [32 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/418FC2F3B4B/README_RICO_5mb_sounding.html

Related links
 * info: RICO Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/rico/catalog/missions.html
 * homepage: RICO Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/rico
 * info: RICO Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/rico-data-policy

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2004-12-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2005-01-31 23:59:00 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 21.60
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 17.30
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -74.50
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -61.45

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/87.015?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/87.015?format=isotc211