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NOAA Observing Systems Architecture(NOSA)

NOAA Observing System Architecture

NOSA Geospatial Database Results
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RAWINSONDE Home Page: http://www.ua.nws.noaa.gov/
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National Weather Service-Radiosonde Network
The NOAA Rawinsonde network provides profiles of pressure, temperature, relative humidity, and winds from the surface to over 30 km high. These data are collected from balloon-borne radiosondes.
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National Weather Service-Radiosonde Network on Google Earth

National Weather Service-Radiosonde Network compressed .kmz

National Weather Service-Radiosonde Network on Google Maps


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Click on the markers to see the name of the station with a link to the observing system home page and a data link when available. Use the zoom controls on the left when a stations is selected to get a closer view. Clicking the satellite or hybrid layer button will show the actual satellite imagery for the area surrounding the station.

Bounding Box:

Note: A bounding box with a small area (zoom in close) will return results faster than a large bounding box.

Dataset: National Weather Service-Radiosonde Network (NWS-RAWINSONDE)
The Data Viewer displays the database table that holds the observatory data for this observing system. It shows the field in the table and the distributions of the values in those fields.
The Station Search provides a simple search for information about particular observatories in this observing system. Using this search without specifying a station name shows all observatories in the observing system.
The Map is an interactive map produced using ArcIMS in a web browser. The map will appear shortly in a new window. It includes all of the NOSA observing system layers. The layer you have selected is visible. Click the radio button next to the layer to make it active and queryable. The "Toolbar Help" button describes how to use the available tools.
The Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Server (WMS) protocol defines a simple interface for web based mapping applications. The WMS protocol is based on a simple query syntax for posting a request for the desired layers and region to the server, which returns a map as a standard image (GIF, PNG or other format).
WMS Map of Observing System

RAWINSONDE Map with Continents Image

RAWINSONDE Map without Background Image
Spatial Searches make it possible to use one of several sets of geographic regions to search for observatories. The available regions are:
Geopolitical | Ecoregions | Hydrologic Units | Forecast Zones | U.S. Counties | U.S. Congressional Districts

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