Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) - Monthly Means (Version Superseded)

Description

**Please note, this dataset has been superseded by a newer version (see below). Users should not use this version except in rare cases (e.g., when reproducing previous studies that used this version).** Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive is a digital data set archived at the former National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), now National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). This dataset contains monthly means of geopotential height, temperature, zonal wind, and meridional wind derived from the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA). IGRA consists of radiosonde and pilot balloon observations at over 1500 globally distributed stations, and monthly means are available for the surface and mandatory levels at many of these stations. The period of record varies from station to station, with many extending from 1970 to 2016. Monthly means are computed separately for the nominal times of 0000 and 1200 UTC, considering data within two hours of each nominal time. A mean is provided, along with the number of values used to calculate it, whenever there are at least 10 values for a particular station, month, nominal time, and level.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 NCEI provides customers with information and data from the NCEI archive. To order NCEI products and services contact the customer support team. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/customer-support
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C00617/html
33 Information on IGRA Metadata https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/images/gaffen1996.pdf
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 Current dataset version landing page for more information, documentation and background on this dataset https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/weather-balloon/integrated-global-radiosonde-archive
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords

Tags

  • vertical location
  • dew point temperature
  • tropopause
  • altitude
  • national climatic data center
  • atmospheric temperature
  • nesdis
  • wind tendency
  • surface winds
  • atmospheric water vapor
  • atmosphere
  • noaa
  • air temperature
  • global
  • temperature tendency
  • troposphere
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • geographic region
  • surface pressure
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • atmospheric pressure measurements
  • wind profiles
  • upper level winds
  • atmospheric pressure
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncdc
  • atmospheric winds
  • geopotential height
  • surface temperature
  • water vapor indicators
  • national centers for environmental information
  • stratosphere
  • pressure tendency

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