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IHOP_2002: Lear QC Dropsonde Data

Summary

Dropsonde profiles from the Lear aircraft collected during the International H2O Project 2002 (IHOP 2002). The dropsonde data was provided by NCAR/ATD (aka EOL). The Lear made drops on May 14th, 15th, 16th, the 22nd, and 24th and on June 3rd, 8th thru 12th, 15th thru 20th,the 22nd,and 24th thru 25th 2002. An important note to users: ATD reprocessed this data and released a new version of this dataset on May 1st,2003. See ATD Reprocessing. Consult the README for more information.

September 2008: The IHOP_2002 Falcon and Lear dropsonde data sets have been updated to include latitude and longitude data that were not in the earlier version. The PTH and wind data are unchanged.

Data access

ORDER data to made available for download
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Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.5065/D6MS3R2K
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2008-10-17)
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Related projects	IHOP_2002: International H2O Project 2002
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	no set schedule
Language	English
Categories	Aircraft Sounding Upper Air
Platforms	Dropwindsondes WMI Learjet
Instruments	AVAPS - Airborne Vertical Atmosphere Profiling Systems Dropsondes
GCMD Science Keywords	ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS DEW POINT TEMPERATURE GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT RELATIVE HUMIDITY VERTICAL PROFILES WATER VAPOR PROFILES WIND DIRECTION WIND DIRECTION PROFILES WIND SPEED WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES Show 9 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	readme.ihop_dropsondes.html [22 KiB]
Related links	info: ATD Reprocessing info: IHOP 2002 Data Policy info: IHOP 2002 Missions homepage: IHOP 2002 Project Homepage

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2002-05-14 00:00:00
End datetime	2002-06-25 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 42.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 31.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -107.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -91.00

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

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

Citation

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. 2008. IHOP_2002: Lear QC Dropsonde Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6MS3R2K. Accessed 16 Jan 2025.

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