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Mississippi State University (MSU) Radiosonde Data

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Meso18-19

Summary

This data set contains temperature, moisture, and wind profiles from the GRAW radiosondes systems operated by the Mississippi State University (MSU) as part of the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) Meso18-19 field season. MSU released radiosondes from two locations for all Meso18-19 operations, Memphis, Tennessee and Starkville, Mississippi. These data are in the SHARPpy comma delimited ASCII format.

Data access

ORDER data to made available for download

Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/3579-Q663-BD0D
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2019-05-14)
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Related projects	Meso18-19: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX-SE) Meso18-19
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	criteria
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosondes
Instruments	Radiosondes
GCMD Science Keywords	ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS DEW POINT TEMPERATURE RELATIVE HUMIDITY VERTICAL PROFILES WATER VAPOR PROFILES WIND DIRECTION WIND DIRECTION PROFILES WIND SPEED WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES Show 8 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	README_MSU_sonde.txt [2 KiB]
Related links	homepage: MESO18-19 Home Page info: Meso18-19 Missions info: VORTEX-SE Data Policy

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2018-10-31 18:00:00
End datetime	2019-04-19 06:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 35.13, Minimum (South) Latitude: 33.47
Minimum (West) Longitude: -89.803, Maximum (East) Longitude: -88.78

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

author: Mike Brown <mike.brown@msstate.edu>

Citation

Brown, M. 2019. Mississippi State University (MSU) Radiosonde Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/3579-Q663-BD0D. Accessed 23 Mar 2025.

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