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START08: National Weather Service (NWS) High Resolution Soundings

Summary

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport 2008 (START08). This data set includes a total of 11999 high vertical resolution soundings from the 70 National Weather Service rawinsonde stations in the contiguous United States. This includes 8725 1-second vertical resolution soundings from the 50 stations that utilized the Radiosonde Replacement System (RRS) with GPS windfinding and 3274 6-second vertical resolution soundings from the 20 stations that used the MicroArt sounding system and radiotheolodite windfinding. The data cover the period from 1200 UTC on 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2008. The soundings were typically released twice a day at 0000 and 1200 UTC. Three stations (Albuquerque, NM; Del Rio, TX; Santa Teresa/El Paso, TX) switched from MicroArt to RRS soundings during this time period. The data are in EOL Sounding Composite format (columnar ascii). NOTE: This is a large dataset; please do not order the complete dataset in one order. Limit each order to no more than 30 days.

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Data Quality final
Versions
  • 1.0 (2009-12-18)
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Spatial Type point
Frequency 12 hourly
Language English
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Temporal coverage

Begin datetime 2008-04-01 00:00:00
End datetime 2008-06-30 23:59:59

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 48.50, Minimum (South) Latitude: 24.50
Minimum (West) Longitude: -124.56, Maximum (East) Longitude: -68.00

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Citation

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Loehrer, S. 2009. START08: National Weather Service (NWS) High Resolution Soundings. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/7XJ0-162A-5313. Accessed 28 Mar 2024.

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