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PECAN: FP2 Greensburg, KS Radiosonde Data

Summary

The University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC) and the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) released radiosondes at the PECAN Fixed PISA (PECAN Integrated Sounding Array) 2 site in Greensburg, Kansas. These releases were conducted during PECAN operations. This data set includes the quality controlled PECAN Fixed PISA 2 UMBC (31 May - 16 July 2015) and NPS (11-12 July 2015) soundings released for the PECAN field phase. A total of 124 (114 UMBC and 10 NPS) quality-controlled, high vertical resolution (1-second) soundings are contained in the final PECAN data set.

Data access

ORDER data to made available for download
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Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.5065/D6FQ9TPH
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2015-11-11)
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Related projects	PECAN: Plains Elevated Convection at Night
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	criteria
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosondes
Instruments	Radiosondes
Sites	Fixed PISA 2 - Greensburg, 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	readme_PECAN_FP2_radiosonde.pdf [479 KiB]
Related links	info: PECAN Data Policy homepage: PECAN Home Page info: PECAN Missions

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2015-05-31 15:00:00
End datetime	2015-07-16 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 37.607, Minimum (South) Latitude: 37.606
Minimum (West) Longitude: -99.282, Maximum (East) Longitude: -99.276

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

processor: Scot Loehrer <loehrer@ucar.edu>
processor: Linda Echo-Hawk <echohawk@ucar.edu>
author: Kevin Vermeesch <kvermees@umbc.edu>

Citation

Vermeesch, K. 2015. PECAN: FP2 Greensburg, KS Radiosonde Data. Version 1.0. null. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6FQ9TPH. Accessed 07 Mar 2026.

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