Radiosonde - temperature and humidity profiles

This dataset contains profiles of temperature and humidity observed by Vaisala RS92-K radiosondes that are launched nominally twice daily at Summit, Greenland. These radiosonde profiles do not contain any wind tracking information due to expense. The data are processed by the Vaisala software with t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: NSF Arctic Data Center
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Arctic Data Center 2010
Subjects:
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > BAROMETRIC ALTITUDE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE PROFILES
EARTH REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS > PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING > PROFILERS/SOUNDERS > RADIOSONDES
BALLOON
VERTICAL PROFILE
1 METER TO 30 METERS
HOURLY TO DAILY
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Arctic
Greenland
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18739/A2193Q
Description
Summary:This dataset contains profiles of temperature and humidity observed by Vaisala RS92-K radiosondes that are launched nominally twice daily at Summit, Greenland. These radiosonde profiles do not contain any wind tracking information due to expense. The data are processed by the Vaisala software with the standard "EDT" processing ("wind nominal, PTU nominal" option), and are converted into netCDF format. The ICECAPS field operations at Summit are supported by the National Science Foundation's Arctic Observing Network (AON) Program. Note: In mid-2011, ICECAPS began launching one RS92-K and one RS92-SGP sonde per day. The former does not have wind sounding, but the latter does.

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