National Weather Service High Resolution Radiosonde
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/383.008

Summary
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather
Service (NWS) routinely releases radiosondes two times per day (00 and 12 UTC)
and does occasional special releases at other times of day (usually 18 UTC)
from sites across the Pacific Ocean. This dataset includes the quality
controlled NWS soundings released from 8 stations located within the
CONvective TRansport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) domain for
the field phase (1 January to 28 February 2014). A total of 926 quality
controlled, high resolution (1-second) soundings are contained in the final
CONTRAST dataset.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 383.008
 * doi:10.26023/YS8K-0D4J-EF0H
   https://doi.org/10.26023/YS8K-0D4J-EF0H

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2014. CONTRAST: National Weather
 Service High Resolution Radiosonde. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing
 Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/YS8K-0D4J-EF0H 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
 * CONTRAST: Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/CONTRAST

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: 12 hourly
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Sounding
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Radiosondes

Instruments
 * Radiosondes

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

Documentation
 * readme_CONTRAST_NWS_radiosonde.pdf [320 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/5138FD1C9ABD9/readme_CONTRAST_NWS_radiosonde.pdf

Related links
 * homepage: CONTRAST
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/contrast
 * info: CONTRAST Missions
   http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/contrast/tools/missions
 * info: CONTRAST Data Policy
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/contrast-data-policy

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2014-01-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2014-02-28 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 21.987
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 6.96
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -159.338
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: 171.294

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

Additional contact information
 * author: 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/383.008?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/383.008?format=isotc211