Environmental Data: Radiosondes

Keywords:
HOLOBALLOON
PRESSURE
RACLETS
RADIOSONDE
RELATIVE HUMIDITY
TEMPERATURE
WIND
WIND DIRECTION
Keywords:
HOLOBALLOON
PRESSURE
RACLETS
RADIOSONDE
RELATIVE HUMIDITY
TEMPERATURE
WIND
WIND DIRECTION

Description

Radiosondes (Windsond, Sparv Embedded AB) were started in Davos Wolfgang (LON: 9.853594, LAT: 46.835577) to report height profiles of pressure, relative hu...

Citation

Wieder, J., Rösch, C. (2019). Radiosondes. EnviDat. https://www.doi.org/10.16904/envidat.121.

Resources

  • Radiosond Template Files

    The "template" files contain standard parameters, i.e. ambient pressure (mbar and Pa), temperature (°C), relative humidity (%), wind speed (m s‾ ¹) and wind direction (true deg), as well as additional information, e.g. time (UTC and local time), dew point (°C), mixing ration (g/kg), density (kg m³), altitude (m MSL), height above ground (ft and m AGL), and geographic coordinates (longitude, latitude). If the wind speed was zero, no wind direction is given. The zip files contain ascents on the following days: February 10 (morning and afternoon), February 11 (morning), February 16 (afternoon), February 22 (morning), March 1 (morning), March 5 (morning), March 11 (morning), March 12 (morning), March 13 (morning), March 14 (morning), March 17 (afternoon), and March 18. The data was managed with Windsond Receiver Application Demo Version 2.92, (C) Sparv Embedded AB 2016.

    Radiosond Template Files

  • Radiosond Sounding Files

    The "soundings" radiosond data contains information on ambient pressure (mbar), temperature (C), relative humidity (%), wind speed (m s‾ ¹) and wind direction (true deg), and are ordered with respect to the height above ground (m AGL) with a step size of 20 m. The first line of each file idicates the geographic location and the start time (in UTC) of the ascent. If the wind speed was zero, no wind direction is given. The zip files contain ascents on the following days: February 10 (morning and afternoon), February 11 (morning), February 16 (afternoon), February 22 (morning), March 1 (morning), March 5 (morning), March 11 (morning), March 12 (morning), March 13 (morning), March 14 (morning), March 17 (afternoon), and March 18. The data was managed with Windsond Receiver Application Demo Version 2.92, (C) Sparv Embedded AB 2016.

    Radiosond Sounding Files