Mandatory and Significant Level Radiosonde Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/68.001

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.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 68.001
 * doi:10.26023/R3X6-6WZH-4A0X
   https://doi.org/10.26023/R3X6-6WZH-4A0X

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL), NOAA, Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL),
 NOAA. 2008. DYCOMS-II: Mandatory and Significant Level Radiosonde Data.
 Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/R3X6-6WZH-4A0X Accessed 13 Jul 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
 * DYCOMS-II: Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus Phase II
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/DYCOMS-II

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: point
 * Frequency: 12 hourly
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Sounding
 * Upper Air

Platforms
 * Radiosondes

Instruments
 * Radiosondes

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

Documentation
 * readme_soundings_mansig.txt [5 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/417244DA/readme_soundings_mansig.txt

Related links
 * info: DYCOMS-II Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/dycoms/catalog/missions/
 * homepage: DYCOMS-II Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/dycoms-ii

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2001-07-07 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2001-07-28 23:59:59 

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

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * originator: Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL), NOAA
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/464
 * author: Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL), NOAA
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/464

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/68.001?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/68.001?format=isotc211