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T-PARC: Japan Research Vessel Seifu Maru High Resolution Radiosonde Data

Summary

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC). It includes 53 high vertical resolution (2-second) radiosonde soundings from the Japanese R/V Seifu Maru. The soundings were typically released two times per day (00 and 12 UTC) from 30 August to 28 September 2008. The soundings from R/V Seifu Maru were released in the Eastern China Sea to the west 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.

Data access

ORDER data to made available for download
Preview dataset (plots/images)

Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/FGAD-XME9-D809
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2010-06-17)
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Related projects	T-PARC: THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC)
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	12 hourly
Language	English
Categories	Ship Based Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosondes Ships
Instruments	Radiosondes
GCMD Science Keywords	ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS DEW POINT TEMPERATURE GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE VERTICAL PROFILES WATER VAPOR PROFILES WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED Show 8 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	Readme_T-PARC_SeifuMaru_soundings.html [17 KiB]
Related links	info: T-PARC Missions info: T-PARC Project Data Policy homepage: T-PARC Project Homepage

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2008-08-30 00:00:00
End datetime	2008-09-28 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 31.97, Minimum (South) Latitude: 31.40
Minimum (West) Longitude: 128.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: 128.44

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>
author: Japan Meteorological Agency

Citation

NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory, Japan Meteorological Agency. 2010. T-PARC: Japan Research Vessel Seifu Maru High Resolution Radiosonde Data. Version 1.0. null. https://doi.org/10.26023/FGAD-XME9-D809. Accessed 09 Mar 2026.

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