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Foreign Winds Aloft (DSI-5200)
tabular digital data
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov
Foreign Winds Aloft is historical digital data set DSI-5200, archived
at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC).
This is a collection of miscellaneous, historical, upper air winds data.
DSI-5200 contains wind speeds and directions at various levels above the
earth's surface.
Data is from a sampling of countries over the world. Data periods vary from
station to station. The earliest data is from 1927, and the latest is from
1971. DSI-5200 includes the following historical data collections, with file
names in double-quotes:
1. "african_middle_east_winds_aloft" 1953/01/01-1961/11/30
(Sudan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq, and Afghanistan)
2. "african_winds_aloft" 1961/07/01-1963/06/30
(Africa [various countries], Syria, Israel, and Jordan)
3. "burma_haitian_winds_aloft" 1956/04/30-1957/07/01
(Burma and Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
4. "chinese_winds_aloft" 1956/08/20-1959/12/31
5. "india_pakistan_winds_aloft" 1953/12/31-1959/05/31 and
"india_pakistan_winds aloft" 1954/01/01-1963/12/31
(India, Pakistan, and island of Borneo [Sarawak and north Borneo])
6. "italian_pibals" 1927/04/01-1933/12/31
7. "japanese_winds_aloft" 1941/11/11-1953/12/31
8. "korean_winds_aloft" 1937/07/31-1957/12/31
9. "portuguese_macao_indian_winds_aloft" 1948/03/17-1948/12/02
(Portugal, Macao, India, Pakistan, Arabia, Burma, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], and
Indian Ocean islands)
10. "se_asian_winds_aloft" 1959/09/16-1967/07/31 and
"se_asian_winds_aloft" 1960/04/01-1967/07/29
(Southeast Asia and Pacific islands)
11. "winds_aloft" 1954/03/30-1960/08/17
(Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay)
12. "winds_aloft" 1949/03/01-1971/01/07
(Philippines)
To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers
and the public.
data set
C00548
RADIOSONDES
RAWINSONDES
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
BALLOONS
PIBAL > Pilot Balloons
RADIOSONDES
National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
19270401
19710107
Ground Condition
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 WINDS > SURFACE WINDS
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > VERTICAL WIND MOTION
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES
GCMD Location Valids
GLOBAL
GCMD Location Valids
STRATOSPHERE
TROPOSPHERE
BALLOONS
RAWINSONDES
RADIOSONDES
RADIOSONDES
Pilot Balloons
PIBAL
VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
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http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/documentlibrary/tddoc/td5200.doc
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DSI-5200
Every effort has been made to ensure that these data are accurate and
reliable within the limits of current NOAA quality control procedures. NOAA can
only certify that the data provided to its customers is an authentic copy of the
records which were accepted for inclusion in NOAA archives. NOAA cannot assume
liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in the data, nor as
a result of the failure of the data to function on a particular system. NOAA
makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution
constitute such a warranty.
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National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Customer Service
Mailing and physical
151 Patton Avenue
Room 120
Asheville
North Carolina
28801-5001
USA
828-271-4800
828-271-4876
NCDC.Orders@noaa.gov
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata
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