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Global Time Series Radiosonde Observations, daily 1948-con

Sounding data collected from various areas of the world including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, and United Kingdom.


PERIODS: 1948 to 2006
UPDATES: Yearly (nominally)
VARIABLES:
Air TemperatureAtmospheric Pressure MeasurementsDew Point TemperatureGeopotential Height
HumidityStation HeightSurface PressureSurface Winds
Upper Level Winds   
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface1000 mbar850 mbar700 mbar
600 mbar500 mbar400 mbar300 mbar
250 mbar200 mbar150 mbar100 mbar
70 mbar50 mbar30 mbar20 mbar
10 mbar   
TYPES: Platform Observation
SOURCES: UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS
Data Support Section, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
PUBLICATIONS: Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds390.0."
VOLUME: 7.13 GBytes
DATA FORMATS: DSS Raobs and Winds
RELATED DATASETS: ds391.0 - Monthly Time Series Radiosondes, 1948 and continuing

CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Bob Dattore (303-497-1825) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
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