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Japan Radiosonde Observations and Surface Observations, 1961-1997

The Japanese Meteorological Agency has provided upper-air and surface observations for Japanese stations. Daily upper-air data are available at 6-hourly and 12-hourly intervals for the years from 1981 to 1997. Monthly upper-air data are available back to 1961. Daily surface observations at 3-hourly intervals span the period from 1961 to 1989, and the period from 1990 to 1997 is covered by hourly surface data.

PERIODS:

1961-01-01 to 1997-12-31

VARIABLES:

Air Temperature	Atmospheric Pressure Measurements	Geopotential Height	Humidity
Upper Level Winds

TYPES:

Platform Observation

COVERAGE:

See the detailed metadata for coverage information

SOURCES:

JP/JMA

Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan

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 ds403.0."

VOLUME:

1.07 GBytes

DATA FORMATS:

ASCII (see dataset documentation), DSS TSR

MORE DETAILS:

View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata

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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