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PECAN: FP5 NCAR/EOL QC Soundings

Summary

The National Center for Atmospheric Research/Earth Observing Laboratory (NCAR/EOL) released radiosondes with its Integrated Sounding System (ISS) that was located at the PECAN Fixed PISA (PECAN Integrated Sounding Array) 5 site in Brewster, Kansas. This data set includes the 112 quality controlled high vertical resolution (1 second) PECAN Fixed PISA 5 NCAR/EOL soundings released during PECAN field phase (2 June to 16 July 2015) Intensive Observing Periods (IOPs).

Data access

ORDER data to made available for download

Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.5065/D6ZG6QF7
Data Quality	final
Versions	0.1 (2015-08-31) 1.0 (2016-03-14) 2.0 (2016-04-05): Added the EOL Sounding Composite (ESC) format version of the data to the dataset. (Only the current version of the data is available to order. If you have questions about a prior version, please email us.)
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Related projects	PECAN: Plains Elevated Convection at Night
Frequency	1 second
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	NCAR/EOL Integrated Sounding System - ISS Radiosondes
Instruments	Radiosondes
Sites	Fixed PISA 5 - Brewster, KS
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	new.readme.PECAN-2015.NCAR.NSSL.radiosondes.pdf [529 KiB] readme.PECAN-2015.NCAR.NSSL.radiosondes.pdf [1059 KiB] readme_PECAN_FP5_Brewster_radiosonde.pdf [570 KiB]
Related links	info: PECAN Data Policy homepage: PECAN Home Page info: PECAN Missions

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2015-06-02 00:00:00
End datetime	2015-07-16 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 39.358, Minimum (South) Latitude: 39.358
Minimum (West) Longitude: -101.371, Maximum (East) Longitude: -101.371

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
processor: Scot Loehrer <loehrer@ucar.edu>
processor: Linda Echo-Hawk <echohawk@ucar.edu>

Citation

NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. 2016. PECAN: FP5 NCAR/EOL QC Soundings. Version 2.0. null. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6ZG6QF7. Accessed 18 Nov 2025.

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