1997 Soundings from Cocos Island, Costa Rica

Summary

A temporary GPS rawinsonde station was installed on Cocos Island, Costa Rica for PACS-97 by NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory and operated by rangers from the CR Park Service.
These data were processed through automated and visual quality control.
The dataset includes pressure, temperature, humidity, winds and altitude taken at 2 seconds vertical resolution.

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Additional information

Homepage	https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/15.201
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Related projects	PACS: Pan American Climate Studies
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	daily
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosondes Rawinsonde, Other
Instruments	Radiosondes
GCMD Science Keywords	ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS DEW POINT TEMPERATURE GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE VERTICAL PROFILES WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED Expand keywords

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	1997-04-29 00:00:00
End datetime	1997-08-09 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 5.60, Minimum (South) Latitude: 5.50
Minimum (West) Longitude: -87.10, Maximum (East) Longitude: -87.00

Primary point of contact information

EOL Data Support <eol-datahelp@ucar.edu>

Additional contact information

• originator: NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

Citation

Example citation following ESIP guidelines:

NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). 2011. 1997 Soundings from Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/15.201. Accessed 16 Jul 2019.

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