Idaho Power Company Lowman Sounding Data [IPC] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/534.020 Summary This dataset contains sounding data from the Idaho Power Company at the Lowman site for Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds - the Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE). Idaho Power utilizes Lockheed Martin LMS6 Radiosondes and Ground Systems. The LMS6 Radiosondes use GPS data to track the radiosonde’s position and height as well as calculating wind speed and direction. Other meteorological data that are collected is pressure, temperature, and humidity. These are calculated from a suite of onboard sensors that include a chip thermistor temperature sensor and a LMU6 humidity sensor. This data is transmitted to the LMS6 Ground System at a frequency between 400.250 and 405.875 MHz. The data are in ASCII files with fixed width columns. The Lowman sounding file names have the prefix "KLOW". Refer to the readme for further information. Identifiers * Local archive identifier: 534.020 * doi:10.5065/D6NV9H02 https://doi.org/10.5065/D6NV9H02 Versions 1.0 1.1: It was found that the file KLOW201702191801.txt was actually a sounding from the Crouch site. There was a sounding at Lowman at this time and this version now has the correct Lowman sounding for this time. 1.2: There are two changes in this version. The previous version included two files that had the wind speed in knots rather than the expected m/s (KLOW201702191801.txt and KLOW201703041401.txt). In this version all files now have the wind speed in m/s. The previous version included one file that had the data cut off prior to the end of the sounding. The file KLOW201703041401 stopped at 500mb. In this version this sounding now extends to 250mb. Citation Blestrud, D. 2018. Idaho Power Company Lowman Sounding Data. Version 1.2. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6NV9H02 Accessed 29 Mar 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 * SNOWIE: Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds - the Idaho Experiment https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/SNOWIE Additional information * Spatial Type: point * Frequency: continuous * Language: English Categories * Sounding * Upper Air Platforms * Radiosondes Instruments * Radiosondes GCMD Science Keywords * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND DIRECTION PROFILES Documentation * SNOWIEUpperAir_readme.pdf [120 KiB] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/531B0435EB182/SNOWIEUpperAir_readme.pdf Related links * companion: 534.019: Idaho Power Company Crouch Sounding Data [IPC] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/534.019 * companion: 534.024: Idaho Power Company Lowman Sounding Data https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/534.024 * info: SNOWIE Missions https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/snowie/tools/missions * homepage: SNOWIE Home Page https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/snowie * info: SNOWIE Data Policy https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/snowie-data-policy Temporal coverage * Begin datetime: 2017-02-03 20:01:00 * End datetime: 2017-03-16 04:01:00 Spatial coverage * Maximum (North) Latitude: 44.10 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 44.10 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -115.45 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -115.45 Primary contact information * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1 Additional contact information * author: Derek Blestrud https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2320 Alternate metadata formats * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/534.020?format=datacite * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/534.020?format=isotc211