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NAME: San Jose, Costa Rica UCR-IMN Rawinsonde Data

Summary

This data set includes 324 high vertical resolution (2-sec) soundings from the San Jose, Costa Rica sounding site (WMO 78762) from 16 June to 30 September 2004. This station is located at 10.00 North Latitude and 84.21 West Longitude and 921. These soundings were provided by the Universidad de Costa Rica-Instituto Meteorologico Nacional (UCR-IMN). During the period from 17 June to 5 September 2004 San Jose released four soundings per day at 0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC each day. For the period from 6 to 30 September 2004 San Jose released one sounding per day at 1200 UTC (except on Sundays when no soundings were released).

The IMN home page can be found here: http://www.imn.ac.cr.

This station used both Vaisala RS80-15G and RS90-AG radiosonde models during NAME.

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Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/YVQW-8S0R-SD0W
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2011-08-24)
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Related projects	NAME: North American Monsoon Experiment
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	< 1 minute
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 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_SanJose_sounding.html [15 KiB]
Related links	homepage: EOL NAME website info: NAME Data Policy info: NAME Missions info: http://www.imn.ac.cr/

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2004-06-16 00:00:00
End datetime	2004-09-30 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 10.01, Minimum (South) Latitude: 9.99
Minimum (West) Longitude: -84.22, Maximum (East) Longitude: -84.20

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

Additional contact information

author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
author: Universidad de Costa Rica-Instituto Meteorologico Nacional

Citation

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Universidad de Costa Rica-Instituto Meteorologico Nacional. 2011. NAME: San Jose, Costa Rica UCR-IMN Rawinsonde Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/YVQW-8S0R-SD0W. Accessed 24 Apr 2024.

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