NCEP ADP Global Upper Air Observational Weather Data, October 1999 - continuing

NCEP ADP Global Upper Air Observational Weather Data are composed of global upper air weather reports operationally collected by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). These include radiosondes, pibals and aircraft reports from the Global Telecommunications System (GTS), and satellite data from the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS). The reports can include pressure, geopotential height, air temperature, dew point temperature, wind direction and speed. Data may be available at up to 20 mandatory levels from 1000 millibars to 1 millibar, plus a few significant levels. Report intervals range from hourly to 12 hourly. These data are the primary input to the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS), which is used to create the NCEP Final Tropospheric Analyses (FNL).

Full daily data can be downloaded in BUFR or LITTLE_R format. Spatial subsets decoded into ASCII can also be selected by latitude/longitude or station ID.

To Access Resource:

Questions? Email Resource Support Contact:

  • Thomas Cram
    tcram@ucar.edu
    UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1999-09-30
    End:  2024-07-04

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1999-09-30
Temporal Range End 2024-07-04
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : NCEP BUFRLIB software

Related Resource #2 : NCEP model data (includes upperair BUFR data in the gdas.* directories)

Related Resource #3 : NCEI GDAS BUFR obs archive (select data order for 'GDAS Daily BUFR files').

Related Resource #4 : NCEP BUFRLIB MNEMONICS

Related Resource #5 : Description of Data Processing at NCEP
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format LITTLE_R (ASCII)
WMO_BUFR (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format Binary
ASCII
Asset Size 872832 MB
Legal Constraints

Use of this dataset is subject to UCAR's Terms of Use, except that commercial use is generally not prohibited.
Access Constraints Registration on the RDA web site is a requirement for access to the data.
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Thomas Cram
Resource Support Email tcram@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Satellite Services Division, Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2004-02-23
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/39C5-Z211
Alternate Identifier ds351.0
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2024-07-05T03:05:01-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds351.0
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Satellite Services Division, Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (2004). NCEP ADP Global Upper Air Observational Weather Data, October 1999 - continuing. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/39C5-Z211. Accessed 05 July 2024.

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