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RAINEX: Barbados Rawinsonde Data

Summary

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX). Ut includes 139 high vertical resolution (2 second) soundings from Barbados. (WMO 78954). Soundings were typically released twice per day (0000 and 1200 UTC) from 1 July to 29 October 2005. This dataset contains soundings released during hurricanes: Dennis, Emily, Katrina, Ophelia, and Wilma.

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ORDER data to made available for download
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Additional information

Identifier	DOI: https://doi.org/10.26023/13NC-HR2F-3204
Data Quality	final
Versions	1.0 (2008-10-07)
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Related projects	RAINEX: Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment
Spatial Type	point
Frequency	12 hourly
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_RAINEX_Barbados_sounding.html [17 KiB]
Related links	info: RAINEX Missions homepage: RAINEX Project Page

Temporal coverage

Begin datetime	2005-07-01 00:00:00
End datetime	2005-10-29 23:59:00

Spatial coverage

Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 13.01, Minimum (South) Latitude: 13.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -59.60, Maximum (East) Longitude: -59.40

Primary point of contact information

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

Additional contact information

author: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
originator: NOAA National Climatic Data Center

Citation

NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. 2008. RAINEX: Barbados Rawinsonde Data. Version 1.0. null. https://doi.org/10.26023/13NC-HR2F-3204. Accessed 11 Nov 2025.

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