Multi-Network Composite Highest Resolution Upper Air Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/371.024

Summary
This data set contains a composite of the highest resolution (i.e. the
“native” resolution) upper air sounding data from all sources for the
Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX). Sounding data is included from
nine sources: the National Weather Service (23 sites and 1484 soundings), the
dropsondes from the NSF/NCAR G-V aircraft (426 soundings), the Atmospheric
Radiation Measurement (ARM) Central Facility site (123 soundings), Vandenberg
Air Force Base (31 soundings), and soundings from MPEX mobile sounding systems
operated by Colorado State University (55 soundings), the National Severe
Storms Laboratory (111 soundings), Purdue University (94 soundings), and Texas
A&M University (23 soundings). Included are 2347 soundings from 30 platforms
from 10 May to 16 June 2013.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 371.024
 * doi:10.5065/D6P26WG4
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6P26WG4

Versions
  1.0
  2.0: This version corrects a temperature dependent dry bias that was present
in the Vaisala RD94 dropsonde relative humidity measurements. Both the
relative humidity and dew point values have been corrected.

Citation
Example citation following ESIP guidelines (http://bit.ly/data_citation):

 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2017. Multi-Network Composite Highest
 Resolution Upper Air Data. Version 2.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing
 Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6P26WG4 Accessed 15 Oct 2021.

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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
 * MPEX: Mesoscale Predictability Experiment
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/MPEX

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: criteria
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Sounding
 * Sounding Composites
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Aircraft, NSF/NCAR GV HIAPER
 * Dropwindsondes
 * Radiosondes

Instruments
 * Dropsondes
 * Radiosondes

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

Documentation
 * readme_MPEX_highres_composite_radiosonde_V2.pdf [431 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/datafile/nph-get/371.024/readme_MPEX_highres_composite_radiosonde_V2.pdf

Related links
 * info: MPEX Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/mpex/tools/missions

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2013-05-10 23:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2013-06-16 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 45.455
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 29.375
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -120.584
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -93.402

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

Additional contact information
 * author: EOL Data Support
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1001
 * processor: Scot Loehrer <loehrer@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/73
 * processor: Linda Cully <cully@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/136
 * processor: Linda Echo-Hawk <echohawk@ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/815

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/371.024?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/371.024?format=isotc211