GPM Ground Validation Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) OLYMPEX V1

Description

The GPM Ground Validation Advanced Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS) OLYMPEX dataset contains dropsonde vertical profiles of atmospheric pressure, air temperature, dew point temperature, relative humidity, wind direction and magnitude, and sensor location obtained during the Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX). The AVAPS dropsondes were released during specific NASA DC-8 aircraft flights between November 12, 2015 and December 19, 2015. A total of 53 standard research dropsondes were launched in the Pacific ocean off the coast of Washington state collecting atmospheric profile observations. The AVAPS datasets are available in ASCII-eol text format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=gpmavapsolyx
21 OLYMPEX Field Campaign Collection DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GPMGV/OLYMPEX/DATA101
21 University of Washington OLYMPEX project web site http://olympex.atmos.washington.edu/
21 What is a Dropsonde? https://www.eol.ucar.edu/content/what-dropsonde
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/gpmValidation/olympex/AVAPS/doc/gpmavapsolyx_dataset.pdf
33 OLYMPEX- 2015 Dropsonde Data Quality Report http://data.eol.ucar.edu/datafile/nph-get/503.001/readme.OLYMPEX-2015.NASA.DC8-Dropsondes.pdf
21 The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0182.1
21 The Computation of Equivalent Potential Temperature https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1980)108%3C1046:TCOEPT%3E2.0.CO;2
21 The NCAR GPS Dropwindsonde https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080%3C0407:TNGD%3E2.0.CO;2
21 GHRC OLYMPEX project web page https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/olympex
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FGPMGV%2FOLYMPEX%2FAVAPS%2FDATA101
21 Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/olympic-mountains-experiment-olympex
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 ASA QC OLYMPEX Dropsonde Data http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/D6QZ28BN

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  • atmospheric-water-vapor
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • atmospheric-pressure
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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