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Monthly Mean Rawinsondes, from NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis, 1948-continuing

Monthly mean rawinsonde data (and metadata) created by Jack Woollen from the daily soundings input to the NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis.

Stephen Leroy of the Anderson Research Group at Harvard University has provided a copy of this dataset in netCDF format.


PERIODS: 1948-01 to 1999-12
VARIABLES:
Air TemperatureAtmospheric Pressure MeasurementsGeopotential HeightHumidity
Station HeightUpper Level Winds  
LEVELS:
1000 mbar850 mbar700 mbar500 mbar
400 mbar300 mbar250 mbar200 mbar
150 mbar100 mbar70 mbar50 mbar
30 mbar20 mbar10 mbar 
TYPES: Platform Observation
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
HARVARD/ARP
Anderson Research Group, Harvard University
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 ds435.0."
VOLUME: 1.65 GBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation), WMO BUFR, netCDF
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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