gov.noaa.ncdc:C00073 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov Global Upper Air Rawinsonde, DSI-5683 is a historical data set archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This data set was produced from upper air data received during the 1970s from the National Meteorological Center (NMC) of the U.S. NOAA National Weather Service. NMC is now the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The data in this file are sorted by stations (WMO) number. The first level is always the surface, standard and significant levels then follow in decreasing pressure (ascending height) order. The major parameters that make up this file are observation time (year, month, day, hour), number of levels, pressure of level (mb to tenths), height of level (geopotential meters), temperature of level (degree Celsius to tenths), relative humidity of level (%), and wind direction (whole degrees) and wind speed (meters per second) of the level. This data were assimilated from normal international communication channels and no detailed quality control measures were employed when converting to DSI-5683. The observations, therefore, were subject to the usual errors inherent in such a collection. This file has been replaced by DSI-6202 and all requests for data should use this new file. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00073 RADIOSONDES RAWINSONDES BALLOONS RADIOSONDES National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 19630901 19700101 Ground Condition Complete As Needed -180.0 -180.0 90.0 -90.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 elevation 006 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > TROPOPAUSE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > PRESSURE THICKNESS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > INVERSION HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE PROFILES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > VERTICAL WIND MOTION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE GCMD Location Valids GLOBAL GCMD Location Valids BOUNDARY LAYER TROPOSPHERE STRATOSPHERE BALLOONS RAWINSONDES RADIOSONDES RADIOSONDES 1 None None Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. Unknown Unknown Element: Number of levels Position: 1-2 Element: Number of records Position: 3 Element: WMO Station Number Position: 4-8 Element: Year Position: 9-10 Element: Month Position: 11-12 Element: Day Position: 13-14 Element: Hour Position: 15-16 Element: Pressure (MB) Position: 17-20 Element: Height (GPM) Position: 21-25 Element: Temperature deg. C Position: 26-29 Element: Dew Point deg. C Position 30-33 Element: Wind Speed (knots) Position: 34-36 Element: Wind Direction (tens of deg.) Position: 37-38 Element: Check bits Position: 39-40 Level 2 Element: Pressure (MB) Position: 41-44 Element: Height (GPM) Position: 45-49 Element: Temperature deg. C Position: 50-53 Element: Dew Point deg. C Position 54-57 Same format continues for all available levels. None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Service Mailing and physical

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