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.
Data access
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Data Quality | final |
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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
Primary point of contact information
EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
Additional contact information
- author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
- originator: Scot Loehrer <loehrer@ucar.edu>
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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