Readme for non-PSS (GTS-resolution) data (found on data/hires_sodne/level0/gts_data/nonpss) Prior to DYNAMO, 46 operational sounding sites in the large scale domain of the experiment were identified as Priority Sounding Sites (PSS). It was felt that data from these sites were important to providing an enhanced analysis over the large-scale DYNAMO domain. Data for other non-PSS sites in the extended DYNAMO domain were collected during the field phase of the experiment. Although many sites experienced delays in sending their data over the GTS in real time, no special effort was made to retrieve a complete set of data for these non-PSS sites. At each site, the GTS-resolution data were processed with gross limit and vertical consistency checks. Objective QC flags were assigned and then these flags were adjusted by visual inspection of each sonde using the "xsnd" visual editor. For additional details on this QC process, please visit (http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/sondeqc/ or Ciesielski et al. 2011). 16 non-PSS sites with GTS-resolution data WMO ID lat lon name elev(m) sonde number (m) type sondes 42971 20.25 85.83 Bhubanes 46 IM MK3 173 43150 17.70 83.30 CWC Visha 66 MODEM 52 43185 16.20 80.15 Machilipa 3 IM MK3 32 43192 15.48 73.82 Gao 58 MODEM 59 43295 12.97 77.58 Bangalore 921 IM MK3 49 43353 9.95 76.26 Cochin 3 GRAW 67 45004 22.32 114.17 Hong Kong/Kings Park 65 VSR92 366 48615 6.17 102.28 Kota Bharu 5 VRS92 188 48650 3.10 101.65 Sepang 17 MODEM 191 48657 3.78 103.22 Kuantan 18 VRS80 162 58968 25.03 121.53 Taipei, Taiwan 9 VRS92 258 59981 16.83 112.33 Xisha Island 5 Shang 363 92035 -9.38 147.21 Port Moresby 48 VRS92 81 94170 -12.68 141.92 Weipa 22 VRS92 181 96471 5.93 116.05 Kota Kinabalu 3 VRS92 198 98444 13.13 123.73 Legaspi 17 VRS92 161 Reference Ciesielski, P. E., P. H. Haertel, R. H. Johnson, J. Wang, and S. Loehrer, 2011: Developing High-Quality Field Program Sounding Datasets. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc, 93, 325-336.