NCSU Soundings IMPACTS V1

Description

The NCSU Soundings IMPACTS dataset consists of atmospheric sounding data collected by the North Carolina State University student sounding club. These data include vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature, relative humidity, pressure, wind speed, and wind direction. These rawinsondes were launched from Raleigh, NC in support of the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field campaign. IMPACTS was a three-year sequence of winter season deployments conducted to study snowstorms over the U.S Atlantic Coast (2020-2022). The campaign aimed to (1) Provide observations critical to understanding the mechanisms of snowband formation, organization, and evolution; (2) Examine how the microphysical characteristics and likely growth mechanisms of snow particles vary across snowbands; and (3) Improve snowfall remote sensing interpretation and modeling to significantly advance prediction capabilities. The sounding data files are available in netCDF-4 format for February 20, 2020.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=ncsusndimpacts
21 IMPACTS Field Campaign Collection DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/IMPACTS/DATA101
21 Radiosondes: An Upper Air Probe http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~hopkins/wx-inst/wxi-raob.htm
21 Radiosonde Observation https://www.weather.gov/upperair/factsheet
21 IMPACTS Field Campaign Project Page https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/impacts
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 IMPACTS Field Campaign Micro Article https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/micro-articles/investigation-microphysics-and-precipitation-atlantic-coast-threatening-snowstorms
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FIMPACTS%2FSOUNDING%2FDATA401
21 Radiosondes Information https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/radiosondes
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/impacts/NCSU_soundings/doc/ncsusndimpacts_dataset.pdf
21 Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0246.1
21 Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast Threatening Snowstorms (Impacts): The 2022 Deployment https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9883693

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

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