gov.noaa.ncdc:C00189 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov Upper Air Monthly Statistics is historical digital data set DSI-9711, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The major parameters which make up this warm flux upper air data file are: wind resultants (mean vector winds), water vapor flux and eddy flux components, specific humidity, computed dew points (sums, counts, and means), temperature (sums, counts, and means), relative humidity (sums, counts, and means), height (sums, counts, and means), maximum winds (dir, speed, and day of occurrence), steadiness factor, warm flux. DSI-9711 data is a by-product of routine processing of rawinsonde data. Data is computed monthly for each standard pressure level from approximately 117 upper air stations for the 1200 hour observations with a few exceptions for which the 0000 hour observation is used. Up to 37 levels from the surface to 0002 millibars are possible for each station. Missing levels for each station will have id elements only. Missing data are represented by blank fields. Relative humidity and flux elements within this data set contain both statistical and actual values and counts of each are maintained during processing. A statistical value was used when the rawinsonde humidity element 'motorboats' due to very low humidity. These values are a set of mean values for use at various temperatures when the electric hygrometer is below its operating range. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00189 RADIOSONDES RAWINSONDES BALLOONS RADIOSONDES National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 19670101 19841231 Ground Condition Complete As Needed 130.0 -35.0 83.0 -55.0 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 > ALTITUDE > BAROMETRIC ALTITUDE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > TROPOPAUSE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > STATION HEIGHT 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 PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE 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 TEMPERATURE > ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > FLIGHT LEVEL WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MASS FLUX GCMD Location Valids GLOBAL GCMD Location Valids LAND SURFACE BOUNDARY LAYER TROPOSPHERE STRATOSPHERE BALLOONS RAWINSONDES RADIOSONDES RADIOSONDES 1 None None Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. Unknown Unknown ELEMENT: Station number or latitude POSITION: 1-5 DEFINITION: A WBAN station number if it is a land station. If its a ship station then latitude in degrees and 10ths are used in this field. RANGE: 00000-99999 ELEMENT: Year POSITION: 6-7 DEFINITION: The year of a specific record. RANGE: 67-84 ELEMENT: Month POSITION: 8-9 DEFINITION: The month of a specified monthly record. RANGE: 01-12 ELEMENT: Hour POSITION: 10-11 DEFINITION: The hour of a specific monthly mean record for a specified pressure level. RANGE: 00-23 ELEMENT: Pressure of level POSITION: 12-15 DEFINITION: The pressure of each specific level. The surface level contains the mean surface pressure for the specified month of record. The levels are expressed in whole millibars. ELEMENT: Sum of X component (West/East) POSITION: 16-20 DEFINITION: The sum total of all the winds reported occurring from a west to east (X) wind component. The upper air monthly statistics data reports in meters per second (mps) and used this sum to determine means and standard deviation of various elements such as vector wind, water vapor flux and eddy flux. This element is computed by (sine of direction times speed). Negative sums have (X overpunch) in low order position. ELEMENT: Sum of Y component (South/North) POSITION: 21-25 DEFINITION: The sum total of all the winds reported occurring from a south to north (Y) wind component. This element reports in meters per second (mps). It is computed by (cosine of direction times speed). Negative sums have (X overpunch) in low order position. ELEMENT: Sum of X SQD component (West/East) POSITION: 26-33 DEFINITION: The sum of each individually squared west to east (X) wind component. It is computed by (squaring the sine of direction times speed). This element is reported in MPS to 2 decimal places. ELEMENT: Sum of Y SQD component (South/North) POSITION: 34-41 DEFINITION: The sum of each individually squared south to north (Y) wind component. It is computed by (squaring the cosine of direction times speed). This element is reported in MPS to 2 decimal places. ELEMENT: Sum of cross product XY component POSITION: 42-49 DEFINITION: The sum of the cross product of the individual south to north and west to east wind components. It is also called the vector product. It is a vector whose magnitude is equal to the product of the magnitudes of any 2 given vectors and the sine of the angle between their positive directions. This element reports in MPS to the nearest 2 decimal points. None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Services Branch Mailing and physical

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