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DYCOMS-II Upper Air: Mandatory and Significant Level Radiosonde Data

Summary

The Mandatory and Significant Level Sounding Data is one of several upper air data sets collected by the National Center For Atmospheric Research/Earth Observing Laboratory (NCAR/EOL) as part of the Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus Phase II: Entrainment Studies (DYCOMS-II) project. Included in the data set are mandatory and significant level sounding data from the National Weather Service upper air sounding sites in San Diego and Oakland, California and Hilo, Hawaii. Also included is the site at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The data cover the period from 7 - 28 July 2001. The data are typically available twice per day at 00 and 12 UTC. The data were acquired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) Radiosonde Database (http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/). NCAR/EOL has performed no quality control on these data.

Data access

ORDER data for delivery by FTP

Additional information

Homepage	https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/68.001
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Related projects	DYCOMS-II: Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus Phase II
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	12 hourly
Language	English
Categories	Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Radiosondes
Instruments	Radiosondes
GCMD Science Keywords	ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS DEW POINT TEMPERATURE GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY U/V WIND COMPONENTS VERTICAL PROFILES WATER VAPOR PROFILES WIND DIRECTION WIND DIRECTION PROFILES WIND SPEED WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES Show 8 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	readme_soundings_mansig.txt [5 KiB]

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2001-07-07 00:00:00
End datetime	2001-07-28 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 38.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 19.50
Minimum (West) Longitude: -155.50, Maximum (East) Longitude: -117.00

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

originator: Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL), NOAA

Citation

Example citation following ESIP guidelines:

Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL), NOAA. 2008. DYCOMS-II Upper Air: Mandatory and Significant Level Radiosonde Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/68.001. Accessed 28 Jan 2021.

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