Japan Research Vessel Chofu Maru High Resolution Radiosonde Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/110.103

Summary
This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the THORPEX Pacific Asian
Regional Campaign (T-PARC). It includes 75 high vertical resolution (2-second)
radiosonde soundings from the Japanese R/V Chofu Maru. The soundings were
typically released two times per day (00 and 12 UTC) from 16 August to 14
September 2008. Additional radiosondes were released when there were active
tropical systems. The soundings from R/V Chofu Maru were released in the area
to the south of Kyushu, Japan. The raw sounding data were made available by
the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). NCAR/EOL converted these soundings to
the EOL Sounding Composite (ESC) columnar ASCII format and conducted a series
of quality control checks.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 110.103
 * doi:10.26023/N7CD-GE3J-550A
   https://doi.org/10.26023/N7CD-GE3J-550A

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Japan Meteorological Agency, Loehrer,
 S. 2010. T-PARC: Japan Research Vessel Chofu Maru High Resolution Radiosonde
 Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/N7CD-GE3J-550A Accessed 26 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * T-PARC: THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC)
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/T-PARC

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: 12 hourly
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Ship Based
 * Sounding
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Radiosondes
 * Ships

Instruments
 * Radiosondes

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY

Documentation
 * Readme_T-PARC_ChofuMaru_soundings.html [17 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/41CAEE92257/Readme_T-PARC_ChofuMaru_soundings.html

Related links
 * homepage: T-PARC Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/t-parc
 * info: T-PARC Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/tparc_2008/missions/index.html
 * info: T-PARC Project Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/t-parc-data-policy-draft

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2008-08-16 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2008-09-14 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 31.63
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 28.99
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: 127.86
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: 132.09

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1
 * originator: Scot Loehrer <loehrer@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/73
 * author: Japan Meteorological Agency
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/503

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/110.103?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/110.103?format=isotc211