gov.noaa.ncdc:C00417 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/cab/igra/index.php http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/documentlibrary/datasets.html#TD6300 http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/documentlibrary/datasets.html#TD6300 http DSI-6300 Documentation NCDC Dataset Documentation for DSI-6300 information Comprehensive Aerological Data Set (CARDS) Subset is historical digital data set DSI-6303, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This is meteorological upper air data from all over the world. CARDS data is primarily radiosonde and pibal data. DSI-6303 is a static subset of the full, ongoing CARDS data set. During a past NCDC project, the data that is now DSI-6303 was extracted from CARDS. Major parameters in upper air data are: pressure, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and height. NCDC maintains this data set in archive but no longer updates nor actively distributes it. It has been superseded by the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) (C00616). To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00417 RADIOSONDES VISUAL OBSERVATIONS PIBAL > Pilot Balloons RADIOSONDES National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/documentlibrary/datasets.html#TD6300 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/cab/igra/index.php?name=visualization http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/cab/igra/index.php 19480101 19901231 Ground Condition Complete As Needed -180.0 180.0 90.0 -90.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 elevation 006 environment 007 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AIR QUALITY > VISIBILITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > STATION HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD AMOUNT/FREQUENCY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > FOG EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > PRESSURE THICKNESS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > TEMPERATURE PROFILES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROFILES EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND PROFILES GCMD Location Valids GLOBAL GCMD Location Valids TROPOSPHERE STATOSPHERE RADIOSONDES RADIOSONDES Pilot Balloons PIBAL VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 1 None None http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/cab/igra/index.php?name=visualization Provides visualization of IGRA data by station, and Creates maps of IGRA data for a user-specified time, pressure level and area. GIF Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. Unknown Unknown Refer to NCDC Dataset Documentation for DSI-6300 http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/documentlibrary/datasets.html#TD6300 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Services Branch Mailing and physical

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