TDWR: NWF Soundings [NWS]

Summary

These data sets are from a National Weather Service (NWS) sounding station near Denver's Stapleton International Airport to support ATD and MMM scientists testing concepts to nowcast thunderstorms and related phenomena. Data were collected during the summer of 1988, 1989 and 1991. It is recommended that data orders be restricted to one year period at a time. Data from 1989 and 1991 are in multiple files and ascii format. Data from 1988 are in a single tar file and are in binary format.

Data access

• ORDER data for delivery by FTP

Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.5065/D63N21N3
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2014-07-14)
Metadata download	Text DataCite ISO/TC 211 Note that your browser may not display the above metadata links, but automatically save them as files in a folder such as "Downloads"
Related projects	TDWR: Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
Frequency	continuous
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosondes Rawinsonde, CLASS
Instruments	Radiosondes
GCMD Science Keywords	ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS DEW POINT TEMPERATURE GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY U/V WIND COMPONENTS VERTICAL PROFILES WATER VAPOR PROFILES WIND DIRECTION WIND DIRECTION PROFILES WIND SPEED WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES Show 8 more... Expand keywords

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	1988-07-01 00:00:00
End datetime	1991-08-30 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 40.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 39.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -105.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -104.00

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

• author: EOL Data Support

Citation

Example citation following ESIP guidelines:

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2014. TDWR: NWF Soundings. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D63N21N3. Accessed 19 Oct 2019.

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