NASA DC-8 Dropsonde Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/500.001

Summary
NCAR/EOL dropsonde data from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the NAMMA campaign.
197 QC dropsonde soundings are available from 13 research flights off the west
coast of Africa, between 6 August and 12 September 2006.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 500.001
 * doi:10.5065/D64B2ZHP
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D64B2ZHP

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2016. NASA DC-8 Dropsonde Data.
 Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.5065/D64B2ZHP Accessed 20 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
 * NAMMA: NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/NAMMA

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: unknown
 * Frequency: 1 second
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Dropwindsondes
 * NASA DC-8

Instruments
 * AVAPS - Airborne Vertical Atmosphere Profiling Systems
 * Dropsondes

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

Documentation
 * readme.NAMMA2006.dropsondes.pdf [398 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/52CC1635D18D0/readme.NAMMA2006.dropsondes.pdf

Related links
 * info: NAMMA DC-8 Dropsonde DOI
   https://doi.org/10.5067/NAMMA/DROPSONDE/DATA201
 * homepage: NAMMA Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/namma

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2006-08-06 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2006-09-12 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 25.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 5.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -36.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -10.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: 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/500.001?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/500.001?format=isotc211