NSF/NCAR C-130 Dropsonde Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.067

Summary
During the second field phase of PLOWS (November 2009 to 10 March 2010) the
NSF/NCAR C-130 aircraft released dropsondes over the north-central United
States. Dropsondes were deployed ny NCAR/EOL during six research flights, of
which 41 are included in this final quality controlled data set. These data
are in a columnar ASCII format, the EOL sounding format.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 113.067
 * doi:10.5065/D6W0943D
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6W0943D

Versions
  1.0
  2.0: This dataset has been corrected for a temperature dependent dry bias and
the filenames have been changed.
  3.0: This data was corrected for a temperature dependent relative humidity
and dewpoint dry bias. This version is the most current version of the
data.

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2017. PLOWS: NSF/NCAR C-130 Dropsonde
 Data. Version 3.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6W0943D Accessed 19 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
 * PLOWS: Profiling of Winter Storms
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/PLOWS

Additional information
 * Frequency: no set schedule
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Aircraft
 * Sounding
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Dropwindsondes
 * NSF/NCAR C-130

Instruments
 * AVAPS - Airborne Vertical Atmosphere Profiling Systems
 * Dropsondes

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

Documentation
 * readme.PLOWS-2010.C130.dropsondes.pdf [265 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/41CC239C9F00/readme.PLOWS-2010.C130.dropsondes.pdf

Related links
 * info: PLOWS 2008-2009 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_08-09/missions/missions.html
 * info: PLOWS Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/plows-data-policy-draft
 * info: PLOWS 2009-2010 Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/plows_09-10/missions/missions.html
 * info: PLOWS EOL Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/plows

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2009-10-23 20:13:00 
 * End datetime: 2010-02-09 18:35:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 48.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 40.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -103.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -88.00

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

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.067?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/113.067?format=isotc211