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Summary
The Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalog System
(CODIAC) home page is
http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/

The STORM-FEST 10mb sounding composite home page is
http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/dss/id=2.20


The STORM-FEST 10mb Sounding Composite dataset consists of upper air
data collected from all surface and aircraft ... based sites (NWS, AES,
CLASS, US Military, Picket Fence, L2D2 and USAF). All data sets were
converted to NCAR CLASS format and inter-polated to 10 mb pressure
levels. Data were then quality controlled.

The STORM-FEST operational period (February 1 - March 15, 1992) is
available online.

The second release (version 2) of the STORM-FEST composite dataset for
rawinsonde observations is now available. The composite consists of
10mb vertical resolution soundings appended into daily files. Each
file contains all soundings for one day and are sorted by time,
station latitude, and station longitude. Version 2 contains additional
soundings from other upper air stations. These include the NCAR/NSSL
special CLASS stations; rawinsonde data from the NPS 'Picket Fence',
Military sites, Canadian sites and Dropsonde data (both military and
NCAR). Nominal time of the sounding is included in the CLASS
format. The sounding composite dataset contains data from the NCAR
CLASS Soundings, Atmospheric Environment Service Canadian Soundings,
NCAR L2D2 Dropsondes, National Weather Service (NWS) Rawinsonde Data,
Pacific Military Dropwindsondes, Naval Post Graduate School (NPGS)
Picket Fence Soundings, Ft. Sill Soundings, and the Flatlands
Soundings.

The parameters include nominal date of launch, nominal time of launch,
actual date of launch, actual time of launch, network identifier,
station identifier, latitude, longitude, station occurrence, station
elevation, time, pressure, dry-bulb temperature, dew point, relative
humidity, u wind component, v wind component, wind speed, wind
direction, ascension rate (dz), altitude, and qc for pressure,
temperature, humidity, u component, v component, and ascension rate.

Parameter notes:

1. The nominal date and time differs from the actual time of a
sounding launch. The nominal data and time is the actual
time rounded to the nearest hour. Actual times may vary a
few minutes before or after nominal time.

2. The station occurance is a uniqueness code to separate
two different stations that may be co-located in the same
latitude/longitude point.

3. Not all platforms report these parameters. If not available
for a network the value was set to missing and the QC flag
to "not observed".

4. Currently, QC for ascension rate and the two fields between
latitude and altitude are not used.

Related URL

Link: GET DATA Description: Access to STORM-FEST 10 mb Sounding Composite data set Link: GET DATA Description: Access to all STORM-FEST data sets. Link: VIEW EXTENDED METADATA Description: STORM-FEST documentation.

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 55.0

S: 26.0

E: -85.0

W: -155.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Title: USWRP/STORM Fronts Experiment Systems Test 10 mb Sounding Composite Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO Dataset Publisher: UCAR/JOSS Online Resource: http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/dss/id=2.20

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1992-02-01 Stop Date: 1992-03-15

Location Keywords

VERTICAL LOCATION > BOUNDARY LAYER GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EQUATORIAL GEOGRAPHIC REGION > MID-LATITUDE CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA VERTICAL LOCATION > TROPOSPHERE CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > STATION HEIGHT ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE > DRY BULB TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR > RELATIVE HUMIDITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

AES > Atmospheric Environment Service GROUND STATIONS

Instrument

CLASS > C-LORAN Atmospheric Sounding System DROPSONDES DROPWINDSONDES RAWINSONDES

Project

STORM-FEST > STORM-Fronts Experiment Systems Test

Ancillary Keywords

CLASS CLIMATOLOGY DAILY DATA DEW POINT TEMPERATURES DRY BULB TEMPERATURES IDN_NODE GSFC/UCAR/NOAA/OFPS RELATIVE HUMIDITY SOUNDING COMPOSITES UPPER AIR VERTICAL SOUNDINGS WIND DIRECTION WIND SPEED WWW

Originating Center

UCAR/NOAA/OFPS/CODIAC

Data Center

Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalog System, Earth Observing Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Data Center URL: http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/ Dataset ID: STORM-FEST 10MB SOUNDING COMPOSITE Data Center Personnel Name: USER SERVICES/CODIAC Email: codiac at ucar.edu Contact Address: Codiac Data Archive University Corporation for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000-FL4 City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80307-3000 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: On-line

Personnel

SCOTT A. RITZ Role: DIF AUTHOR Phone: 301-614-5126 Fax: 301-614-5268 Email: Scott.A.Ritz at nasa.gov Contact Address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Global Change Master Directory City: Greenbelt Province or State: Maryland Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA

Publications/References

'E-BUFR Version 0 Technical Reference Manual', December 1991, UCAR/OFPS,
Boulder, CO. [This document explains the details of the E-BUFR format. A
digital version of this document may be retrieved via anonymous FTP. Telnet
to 128.117.90.53. The document is named 'ebufr.doc' and is in directory
'documentation'.]

Manual on Codes, 1988, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
WMO Publication 306, Supplement No. 3 (VIII.1991) Section FM 94-IX Ext., pages
I-Bi--43 to I-Bi--174.

Creation and Review Dates

Last DIF Revision Date: 2006-10-27

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