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NAME: Phoenix, Arizona SRP High Resolution Rawinsonde Data

Summary

This data set includes 360 high vertical resolution (5-sec) soundings from the Phoenix, Arizona sounding site (WMO 74626) from 8 June to 24 September 2004. This station is located at 33.45 North Latitude and 111.95 West Longitude. These soundings were provided by the Salt River Project (SRP). During the period from 10 June to 6 July 2004 Phoenix released two soundings per day at 0000 and 1200 UTC. For the period from 7 July to 29 August 2004 Phoenix released between 4 and 6 soundings per day. After 29 August Phoenix released 3 to 4 soundings per day.

NOTE: These data have been corrected as of 16 February 2010 for a significant dry bias. See the documentation file for details on the correction(s) applied to this data set. Also see Ciesielski et al 2009 in JTECH.

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ORDER data to made available for download
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Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/X85P-HKSV-KR10
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2010-02-18)
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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 UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE VERTICAL PROFILES WATER VAPOR PROFILES WIND DIRECTION WIND DIRECTION PROFILES WIND SPEED WIND VELOCITY/SPEED PROFILES Show 10 more... Expand keywords
Documentation	README_Phoenix_sounding.html [15 KiB]
Related links	homepage: EOL NAME website info: NAME Data Policy info: NAME Missions

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2004-06-08 00:00:00
End datetime	2004-09-24 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 33.51, Minimum (South) Latitude: 33.49
Minimum (West) Longitude: -112.01, Maximum (East) Longitude: -111.99

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

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

Citation

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory, Salt River Project. 2010. NAME: Phoenix, Arizona SRP High Resolution Rawinsonde Data. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/X85P-HKSV-KR10. Accessed 18 Apr 2025.

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