NAMMA PRAIA CAPE VERDE RADIOSONDE V1

Description

The NAMMA Praia Cape Verde Radiosonde data used Sippican MarkIIa DGPS (LOS) radiosondes, which were launched in support of NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) mission. This mission was based in the Cape Verde Islands, 350 miles off the coast of Senegal in west Africa. Commencing in August 2006, NASA scientists employed surface observation networks and aircraft to characterize the evolution and structure of African Easterly Waves (AEWs) and Mesoscale Convective Systems over continental western Africa, and their associated impacts on regional water and energy budgets. The radiosondes released were Sippican MK-IIa units developed by Lockheed Martin. The atmospheric soundings were used to measure pressure, temperature, humidity, wind direction and speed and spatial coordinates. Data is grouped by ascending and descending flights and includes temperature, Skew-T, trajectory, wind and time series plots.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FNAMMA%2FRADIOSONDE%2FDATA201
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=namradio
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/namma/Radiosonde/browse/namma_sonde_060820_0737z_traj_L2.gif
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/namma/Radiosonde/browse/namma_sonde_060820_0737z_skewt_L2.gif
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/namma/Radiosonde/browse/namma_sonde_060820_0737z_temp_dew_ql_L2.gif
21 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/namma/namradio/namradio_dataset.html
21 NAMMA praia radiosonde data ascent 07/28/2006 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namradio/namma_praia-radiosonde_20060728_1517Z_data_ascent.txt
21 NAMMA PRAIA RADIOSONDE FlightLog https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namradio/NAMMA_PRAIA-RADIOSONDE_FlightLog.txt
33 NAMMA praia radiosonde data products https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namradio/namma_praia-radiosonde_data_products.pdf
21 NAMMA praia radiosonde data descent 07/28/2006 https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namradio/namma_praia-radiosonde_20060728_1517Z_data_descent.txt
21 N/A https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/namma/Radiosonde/browse/
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
33 NAMMA-Praia, Cape Verde Radiosonde Description https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namradio/namma_praia-radiosonde_description.pdf
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/namma
16 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/namma/Radiosonde/browse/namma_sonde_060820_0737z_wind_ql_L2.gif
33 Praia, Cape Verde Radiosonde Data Description https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/doc/namma/namradio/namma_praia-radiosonde_data_description.pdf

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

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