NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Observations, 1992May-continuing
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Abstract:
The NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) has 35 unmanned Doppler Radar sites in 18 central US states and Alaska. They provide hourly vertical profiles of wind data. The hourly netCDF files disseminated from Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) of NOAA starting from May 1992 are archived in this dataset. It continues to be updated monthly.
U and V wind components from 500 meters above ground level to 16.25 kilometers are recorded at every 250m increment. Several stations may have been moved or added. Problems of bird contamination are also reported. Flags are used to indicate the quality of data.
A detailed description of the NOAA Profiler Network is available at NCEP's NPN site.
Temporal Range:
1992-05-14 to 2006-03-31
Updates:
Quarterly
Variables:
| Upper Level Winds | Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed |
Data Contributors:
DOC/NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD/
Global Systems Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Total Volume:
12.62 GB
Data Formats:
Metadata Record:
Data License:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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