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U.S.A.F. TDF54 Time Series Radiosondes, daily 1943Jan-1974Dec

Collection of time series raobs for 1943-1974, for selected areas of the world, produced and maintained by USAFETAC, Asheville, NC. Entire set was sent to GFDL for intermediate processing, then returned to NCAR for final reformatting.

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PERIODS:

1943-01 to 1974-12

VARIABLES:

Air Temperature	Atmospheric Pressure Measurements	Geopotential Height	Humidity
Surface Pressure	Surface Winds	Upper Level Winds

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface	1000 mbar	850 mbar	700 mbar
600 mbar	500 mbar	400 mbar	300 mbar
250 mbar	200 mbar	150 mbar	100 mbar
70 mbar	50 mbar	30 mbar	20 mbar
10 mbar

TIMES:

TYPES:

Platform Observations

SOURCES:

UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS

Data Support Section, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

DOD/USAF/AFWA

Air Force Weather Agency, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Defense

DOC/NOAA/GFDL

NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, U.S. Department of Commerce

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 ds390.5."

VOLUME:

999.03 MBytes

DATA FORMATS:

Binary (see dataset documentation), ASCII (see dataset documentation)

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Will Spangler (303-497-1217) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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