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GCIP/LSA-NW-00: NWS High-Resolution Radiosonde Data

Summary

This is one of the upper air sounding data sets developed for the GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP) Large Scale Area - North West (LSA-NW) Enhanced Annual Observing Period 2000 (EAOP-00) conducted from 01 April 2000 to 31 March 2001. The LSA-NW domain extends from 90W to 115W longitude and 36N to 51N latitude. Included in this data set are 17 National Weather Service (NWS) rawinsonde stations in the LSA-NW domain. The soundings were typically released at 00 and 12 UTC, however, several stations had additional releases. The final data set includes pressure, dry bulb temperature, dew point temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, at 6-sec vertical resolution. Consult the readme file for further information.

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Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/X05X-VKZY-GE0X
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2011-08-24)
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Related projects	GCIP/LSA-NW-00: GCIP Large Scale Area-North West EAOP-00
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	12 hourly
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosondes
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 DIRECTION PROFILES WIND SPEED WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES Show 10 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	nws_sondes.txt [19 KiB]
Related links	info: GCIP Data Plans and Reports homepage: GCIP EOL Homepage homepage: GCIP/LSA-NW 00 EOL Homepage

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2000-04-01 00:00:00
End datetime	2001-03-31 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 51.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 36.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -115.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -90.00

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

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author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
originator: National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), NOAA

Citation

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), NOAA. 2011. GCIP/LSA-NW-00: NWS High-Resolution Radiosonde Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/X05X-VKZY-GE0X. Accessed 12 Dec 2024.

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