San Jose, Costa Rica UCR-IMN Rawinsonde Data https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/82.039 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. Identifiers * Local archive identifier: 82.039 * doi:10.26023/YVQW-8S0R-SD0W https://doi.org/10.26023/YVQW-8S0R-SD0W Versions 1.0 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 29 Mar 2024. Additional citation styles can be generated by entering the DOI at CrossCite (https://citation.crosscite.org/). 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 * NAME: North American Monsoon Experiment https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/NAME Additional information * Spatial Type: point * Frequency: < 1 minute * Language: English Categories * Sounding * Upper Air Platforms * Radiosondes Instruments * Radiosondes GCMD Science Keywords * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND DIRECTION * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > VERTICAL PROFILES * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES > WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES * 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 TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY Documentation * README_SanJose_sounding.html [15 KiB] https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/42250976/README_SanJose_sounding.html Related links * info: NAME Missions http://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/name/catalog/missions.html * info: NAME Data Policy https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/name-data-policy * homepage: EOL NAME website https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/name * 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 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 10.01 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 9.99 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -84.22 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -84.20 Primary contact information * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1 Additional contact information * author: EOL Data Support https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1 * author: Universidad de Costa Rica-Instituto Meteorologico Nacional https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/2953 Alternate metadata formats * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/82.039?format=datacite * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/82.039?format=isotc211