Readme_upaL3.0 Date: 18 March 2016 OLYMPEX Level 3.0 Upper-air upsonde sounding data: ASPEN processed, hi-res data in ASCII EOL format files have been checked for biases L3.0 is high-vertical resolution (1-2s) data at sites listed below. site type name identifier lat. long. elev # of sonde type (m) soundings enhanced EnvC, BC, Canada 48.46 -123.30 60 71 Vaisala RS92 enhanced NPOL, WA, 47.28 -124.21 144 99 Vaisala RS92 NWS operational Quillayute, WA, USA KUIL, 72797 47.93 -124.56 57 162 Vaisala RS92 NWS operational Salem, OR, USA KSLE, 72694 44.91 -123.01 62 160 Sippican Mark II GTS resolution data (at Port Hardy, BC / CYZT) is not available at this data level Notes: - as of 18 March 2016 the L3.0 are L2 files as no biases were found in the L2 data - files for each site have been tarred and gzipped into a single file - read_upaL2_eol.f - fortran program to read L3.0 data in EOL format - KUIL NWS site experienced a power failure and has no data from 12Z 17 Dec. to 12Z 28 Dec. 2015 - The fully QC'ed sounding dataset (L1-L4): - Level 1 (all data in common ASCII format) - Level 2 (hi-res with APSEN QC processing) - Level 3 (checked to see if corrections are needed) - Level 4 (hi-res data put 5-hP uniform resolution with QC flags) - the dropsonde data will be Qc'ed by NCAR EOL - the upsodne data will be Qc'ed by CSU Refer questions regarding upsonde data to Paul Ciesielski (paulc@atmos.colostate.edu)