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IDEAL: National Weather Service High Resolution Radiosonde Data

Summary

The National Weather Service (NWS) routinely releases radiosondes at 00 and 12 UTC with occasional special releases at sites throughout the United States. This data set includes the quality controlled NWS soundings released at nine sites around Salt Lake City, Utah during the IDEAL (Instabilities, Dynamics and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering) project's field phase (15 October to 15 November 2017). A total of 585 quality-controlled, high vertical resolution (1-second) soundings are contained in the final IDEAL NWS radiosonde data set.

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ORDER data to made available for download
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Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.5065/D6ZG6R0T
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2018-01-17): This is the initial version of the National Weather Service High Resolution Radiosonde dataset in ESC format.
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Related projects	IDEAL: Instabilities, Dynamics and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	12 hourly
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosondes
Instruments	Radiosondes
GCMD Science Keywords	ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY U/V WIND COMPONENTS UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE VERTICAL PROFILES WATER VAPOR PROFILES WIND DIRECTION PROFILES WIND SPEED WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES Show 9 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	readme_IDEAL_NWS_radiosonde.pdf [521 KiB]
Related links	info: IDEAL Data Policy homepage: IDEAL Home Page

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2017-10-15 00:00:00
End datetime	2017-11-16 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 43.568, Minimum (South) Latitude: 35.038
Minimum (West) Longitude: -119.795, Maximum (East) Longitude: -106.623

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

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

Citation

NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. 2018. IDEAL: National Weather Service High Resolution Radiosonde Data. Version 1.0. null. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6ZG6R0T. Accessed 15 Jan 2026.

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