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Global GTS Mandatory/Significant Level Radiosonde Observations in GEMPAK Format

Summary

The GTS Sounding Observations Data set is one of several data sets collected by the National Center for Atmospheric Research/Earth Observing Laboratory. These data are contained in daily files which are in GEMPAK format. The data were acquired via the UNIDATA Local Data Manager (LDM).

Archive note

Due to an unexptected hardware failure 21 files were lost corresponding to dates in the first half of 2017. Specifically, the files associated with the following days (in year 2017) are missing: Jan 8, 17, 24, 28; Feb 11, 13, 20, 24, 25; Mar 4, 21; Apr 10, 24, 25, 30; Jun 6, 9, 10.

As of 21 May 2024, this gempak dataset will not be continuing to collect any real-time data. Please see related links below for similar datasets that will be continuing real-time data collection.

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Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/ZNH0-69C4-DZ0B
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2011-09-14)
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Related projects	MATERHORN-X: Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations VERTEX: Vertical Enhanced Mixing Experiment VOCALS: VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study ITOP: Impact of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific SNOWIE: Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds - the Idaho Experiment DYNAMO: Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation SAVANT: Stable Air Variability and Transport TORERO: Tropical Ocean tRoposphere Exchange of Reactive halogen species and Oxygenated VOC MPEX: Mesoscale Predictability Experiment TORUS_2022: Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells 2022 WINTER: Wintertime Investigation of Transport, Emission, and Reactivity MethaneAIR: MethaneAIR VORTEX-SE_2017: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) 2017 Field Campaign HAIC-HIWC_2015: High Altitude Ice Crystals - High Ice Water Content Project - 2015 TORUS_2019: Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells 2019 PERiLS_2022: Propagation, Evolution and Rotation in Linear Storms 2022 T-PARC: THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC) OWLeS: Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems WINTRE-MIX: Winter Precipitation Type Research Multi-scale Experiment VORTEX-SE_2018: The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment Southeast (VORTEX-SE) 2018 Field campaign DEEPWAVE: A Study of Deeply Propagating Gravity Waves from the Earth's Surface to the Mesosphere PREDICT: Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) Operational: Operational Datasets VORTEX2: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2 VORTEX-SE_2016: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) 2016 Field Campaign CFACT: Cold Fog Amongst Complex Terrain SAS: The Southeast Atmosphere Study SWEX: Sundowner Winds Experiment TORUS-LItE: Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells - Left-flank Intensive Experiment ORCAS: The O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean (ORCAS) Study PECAN: Plains Elevated Convection at Night Meso18-19: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) Meso18-19 ICE-L: Ice in Clouds Experiment (ICE-L) HIWC-RADAR-2015: High Ice Water Content (HIWC) Radar Study 2015 RELAMPAGO: Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations HAIC-HIWC: High Altitude Ice Crystals - High Ice Water Content Project 2014 IDEAL: Instabilities, Dynamics and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering CG_WaveS: Convective Gravity Waves in the Stratosphere ICE-T: Ice in Clouds Experiment - Tropical CHEESEHEAD: Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-density Extensive Array of Detectors MAIR-E: Methane Emissions Quantification at scales from 20 m to 200 km using the MethaneAIR Imaging Spectrometer on the NSF Gulfstream-V (MAIR-E) MAIRE24: Methane Emissions Quantification at scale using the MethaneAIR Imaging Spectrometer on the NSF Gulfstream-V 2024 CSET: Cloud System Evolution in the Trades PLOWS: Profiling of Winter Storms SPICULE: Secondary Production of Ice in Cumulus Experiment DELTA: Detecting and Evaluating Low-level Tornado Attributes HIWC-RADAR-2018: High Ice Water Content (HIWC) Radar Study 2018 DC3: Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry Project CONTRAST: Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics NAME: North American Monsoon Experiment ICICLE: In-Cloud Icing and Large-Drop Experiment Perdigao: Perdigao Field Experiment SOCRATES: Southern Ocean Clouds Radiation Aerosol Transport Experimental Study PERiLS_2023: Propagation, Evolution and Rotation in Linear Storms 2023
Spatial Type	point
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosondes
Instruments	Radiosondes
GCMD Science Keywords	ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS DEW POINT TEMPERATURE GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY U/V WIND COMPONENTS VERTICAL PROFILES WATER VAPOR PROFILES WIND DIRECTION WIND DIRECTION PROFILES WIND SPEED WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES Show 10 more... Expand keywords
Related links	companion: 100.030: GTS BUFR Radiosonde Data

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2000-03-17 00:00:00
End datetime	2024-05-21 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 90.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: -90.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -180.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: 180.00

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

author: National Weather Service (NWS)

Citation

National Weather Service (NWS). 2011. Global GTS Mandatory/Significant Level Radiosonde Observations in GEMPAK Format. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/ZNH0-69C4-DZ0B. Accessed 04 Dec 2024.

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