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Global (but spotty non-U.S.) Monthly Mean Radiosonde Observations, 1950-continuing

Upper air data from the Monthly Climatic Data for the World, obtained from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).

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PERIODS:

1950-01 to 2009-03

UPDATES:

Quarterly (nominally)

VARIABLES:

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

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface	850 mbar	700 mbar	500 mbar
300 mbar	200 mbar	150 mbar	100 mbar
50 mbar	30 mbar	10 mbar

TYPES:

Platform Observation

COVERAGE:

SOURCES:

DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

DOI/USGS/BRD/NWRC

National Wetlands Research Center, Biological Resources Division, USGS, U.S. Department of the Interior

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 ds430.0."

VOLUME:

183.47 MBytes

DATA FORMATS:

ASCII (see dataset documentation), Binary (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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