NMC Upper Air Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/354.015

Summary
This dataset contains upper air station data for the Persian Gulf Region
derived from the NMC realtime decode collected during the Kuwait Oil-Fire
Smoke Experiment (KOFSE). Data are in ASCII text format and require the
provided adpupa.f fortran program to be read.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 354.015
 * doi:10.26023/60RX-3K7S-EQ0K
   https://doi.org/10.26023/60RX-3K7S-EQ0K

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 National Meteorological Center. 2018. KOFSE: NMC Upper Air Data. Version 1.0.
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/60RX-3K7S-EQ0K Accessed 25 Apr 2024.

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at CrossCite (https://citation.crosscite.org/).

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
 * KOFSE: Kuwait Oil-Fire Smoke Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/KOFSE

Additional information
 * Frequency: continuous
 * Language: English

Platforms
 * Radiosondes

Instruments
 * Radiosondes

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

Documentation
 * adpupa.f [14 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A159/adpupa.f
 * format.add [6 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A16B/format.add
 * format.on29 [359 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A184/format.on29
 * nmcraobs.c [21 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A157/nmcraobs.c
 * nmcraobs.F [16 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A15A/nmcraobs.F
 * raobs.list [3 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A158/raobs.list
 * raobscmake [1 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A15E/raobscmake
 * raobsfmake [1 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A15B/raobsfmake
 * raobshelp [22 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A183/raobshelp
 * README [2 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A15C/README
 * station.list [2 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/54060B452A182/station.list

Related links
 * homepage: KOFSE/KuDA EOL Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/kofsekuda

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1991-01-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 1991-12-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 34.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 21.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: 44.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: 54.00

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

Additional contact information
 * author: National Meteorological Center
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/447

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/354.015?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/354.015?format=isotc211