U.S. Army Atmospheric Profiler Research Facility (APRF) Real-TimeVertical

Profiles at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)

BRIEF

The Atmospheric Profiler Research Facility (APRF) at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) operated by the U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory (ASL), provides real-time. hour averaged, quality-controlled, surface to stratosphere profiles of wind, temperature, optical/radar turbulence, and pressure from a variety of instruments including anemometers, sodar (atmospheric sounders), and radar profilers.

The APRF measures selected atmospheric parameters continuously at various resolutions from the surface up to about 20 km above ground level. The APRF systems include: (1) two high performance clear-air atmospheric vertical profilers (49.25 and 2900 MHz); (2) a suite of three supporting standard atmospheric profilers (404.37 and 924 MHz, and an acoustic sounder (sodar); (3) an array of specialized surface and tower-mounted point and integrated-path instrumentation, and various tehthered and free flight balloon souindings; and (4) an independent optical measurement system.

The APRF data are available via anonymous FTP as follows:

ftp aprf.arl.army.mil login: anonymous password: your email address

cd /pub/profiler/hourly-profiles

The data are in ASCII format, but only the current day is uncompressed. Set ftp to BINARY for data transfers. The file format is:

aprfyyddd.asc where yy=last two digits of the year, ddd=day of year. Data columns are: height (m), speed (m/s), direction (deg), temperature (deg C), relative humidity (%), optical turbulence (cn**2), pressure (mb), data source.

Graphical displays of the data may be found in subdirectory pub/profiler/hourly-profiles/images, in tiff format. Use BINARY data transfers. Wind, temperature and turbulence files are available.

ATTRIBUTES

Entry_ID: APRF_WSMR (MD Identifier: 5000)
 
Temporal Coverage:
     From: 1994-01-01                 TO:  
 
Geographic Coverage:
     Southwest Extent: 32N,106W    Northeast Extent:  32N,106W
 
Source:
     GROUND BASED STATIONS
     GROUND OBSERVATIONS
     GROUND STATIONS
 
Sensor:
     ACOUSTIC SOUNDER
     ANEMOMETER
     PROFILER
     RADAR
 
Storage Media:
     on-line ftp
 
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > ATMOSPHERE
 
Location Keyword:
     NORTH AMERICA
 
Parameter Group, Parameter:
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > HUMIDITY
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > PRESSURE
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > WINDS
 
General Keywords:
     ARMY
     DOD
     HEIGHT
     IDN_NODE GSFC/ASL
     RADAR PROFILER
     SODAR
     TURBULENCE
     WIND DIRECTION
     WIND PROFILES
     WIND SPEED
     WSMR
 
Science Review Date: 1994-03-07
 
Revision Date: 1994-03-07

DATACENTER

Archive: 
   ASL>U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory
 
   Contact: FLOWERS, WAYNE 
            Science and Technology Corporation
            Atmospheric Profile Research Facility
            U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory
            White Sands Missile Range, NM  88002-5501
 
            Electronic Mail: INTERNET> wayne@aprf.arl.army.mil

PERSONNEL

Investigator: FLOWERS, WAYNE 
              Science and Technology Corporation
              Atmospheric Profile Research Facility
              U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory
              White Sands Missile Range, NM  88002-5501
 
              Electronic Mail: INTERNET> wayne@aprf.arl.army.mil
 
Investigator: HINES, JOHN R.
              Atmospheric Profile Research Facility
              U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory
              White Sands Missile Range, NM 88002-5501
 
              Electronic Mail: INTERNET> jhines@arl.army.mil
 
Tech Contact: HINES, JOHN R.
              Atmospheric Profile Research Facility
              U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory
              White Sands Missile Range, NM 88002-5501
 
              Electronic Mail: INTERNET> jhines@arl.army.mil
 
Entry Author: MAJOR, GENE R.
              Hughes STX
              7701 Greenbelt Road, Suite 400
              Greenbelt, MD 20770
              USA
 
              Electronic Mail: INTERNET> MAJOR@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
                               NSI/DECNET> NSSDCA::MAJOR
 
              Phone: (301) 441-4199
 
 
Information in this entry provided by ASL

REFERENCE


Hines, J.R., S.A. McLaughlin, F.D. Eaton, W.R. Hatch. 1993. "The U.S. Army
Atmospheric Profiler Research Facility: Introduction and capabilities", Eighth
Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Measurements, January 17-22, 1993,
Anaheim, CA, pp. 237-242.

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