Multi-Network Composite 5-mb Level Upper Air Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/89.137

Summary
This data set is a composite of radiosondes collected from 5 sounding
platforms during the Variability of the American MOnsoonS (VAMOS)
Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS) 2008 project with data collected
from 30 September 2008 through 1 December 2008. This project was conducted off
and along the coast of northern Chile, South America in the eastern Pacific
Ocean. This composite contains a total of 678 high resolution soundings. The
data includes 678 soundings with 91 soundings from the lower site at Paposo,
Chile, 215 soundings from R/V Ron Brown, 47 dropsondes from the United Kingdom
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM) BAe-146 aircraft, 192
soundings from the GPS Advanced Upper_Air Sounding (GAUS) system located at
Iquique, Chile, and 133 soundings from the R/V Jose Olaya GAUS system. Users
are strongly encouraged to contact FAAM BAe for guidance on using their
dropsonde data. Please contact Grant Allen at grant dot allen at
manchester.ac.uk. This data set 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.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 89.137
 * doi:10.5065/D6M32T3K
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6M32T3K

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Loehrer, S. 2011. VOCALS:
 Multi-Network Composite 5-mb Level Upper Air Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR -
 Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6M32T3K Accessed 24 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
 * VOCALS: VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/VOCALS

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: criteria
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Ship
 * Sounding
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Aircraft, BAE-146
 * Dropwindsondes
 * NCAR/EOL GAUS/GLASS/CLASS Radiosonde
 * R/V Jose Olaya
 * R/V Ronald H. Brown
 * Radiosondes
 * Ships

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

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

Documentation
 * readme_vocals_2008_5mb_sounding.html [24 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/41D661064B78/readme_vocals_2008_5mb_sounding.html

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

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2008-09-30 21:18:00 
 * End datetime: 2008-12-01 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 28.80
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: -30.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -90.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -70.00

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: Scot Loehrer <loehrer@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/73

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/89.137?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/89.137?format=isotc211