NOAA Soundings IMPACTS V1

Description

The NOAA Soundings IMPACTS dataset was collected from January 1, 2020 through February 29, 2020 during the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field campaign. The goal of IMPACTS was to provide observations critical to understanding the mechanisms of snowband formation, organization, and evolution, examine how the microphysical characteristics and likely growth mechanisms of snow particles vary across snowbands, and improve snowfall remote sensing interpretation and modeling to significantly advance prediction capabilities. These radiosonde data files include wind direction, dew point temperature, geopotential height, mixing ratio, atmospheric pressure, relative humidity, wind speed, temperature, potential temperature, equivalent potential temperature, and virtual potential temperature measurements at various levels of the troposphere. The data are available in netCDF-4 format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 Upper Air Data Continuity Study Test Plan for the Sippican B2 and Vaisala RS92 NGP Radiosondes http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ops2/ops22/sfsc%20html/DCS%20Test%20Plan%20with%20Attachments.pdf
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Radiosonde Observations https://www.weather.gov/upperair/factsheet
33 Vaisala Radiosonde RS92-SGP User’s Guide https://www.vaisala.com/sites/default/files/documents/Vaisala%20Radiosonde%20RS92%20Users%20Guide_M210295EN-J.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 IMPACTS Field Campaign Collection DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/IMPACTS/DATA101
21 Weather Balloon Instrument/Radiosonde Information https://www.weather.gov/upperair/radiosonde
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%2FDATA201
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=noaasndimpacts
21 Upper Air Observations https://www.weather.gov/upperair
33 The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/fieldCampaigns/impacts/NOAA_soundings/doc/noaasndimpacts_dataset.pdf
21 Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast Threatening Snowstorms (Impacts): The 2022 Deployment https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9883693
21 IMPACTS Field Campaign Project Page https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/field-campaigns/impacts

Tags

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

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