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RAINEX: Mexico SMN-CNA Rawinsonde Data

Summary

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX). It includes 94 high resolution vertical (2 second) rawinsonde data from the Servicio Meteorol&ocaute;gico Nacional (SMN) Comisión Nacional del Agua (CNA), which forms part of the Secretaríade Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT). There are 2 stations (Merida and Vera Cruz) that measure pressure, temperature, humidity and wind that are released twice a day.

The SMN home page can be found here: http://smn.cna.gob.mx/SMN.html. The web site is in spanish.

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Data Quality final
Versions
  • 1.0 (2008-10-07)
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Spatial Type point
Frequency 12 hourly
Language English
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Temporal coverage

Begin datetime 2005-08-01 00:00:00
End datetime 2005-09-30 23:59:00

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 20.10, Minimum (South) Latitude: 19.10
Minimum (West) Longitude: -96.20, Maximum (East) Longitude: -89.50

Primary point of contact information

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

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Citation

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), NOAA. 2008. RAINEX: Mexico SMN-CNA Rawinsonde Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/4WJ6-H25Y-8X0M. Accessed 29 Mar 2024.

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