The Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) Fixed Ship

Rawinsonde Data (BO723-BO724)

BRIEF

This report describes the data available from the BOMEX Permanent Archive, a depository for data collected during the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) in 1969. Parameters included in this dataset are: boundary layer and surface air temperature, wet bulb temperature, humidity, and winds; clouds; visibility; precipitation; sea surface temperature; and waves. Procedures used in data processing are described, and an inventory of the archived data is given.

With the cooperation of the Government of Barbados and with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as lead agency, the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) was conducted over the tropical Atlantic East of Barbados in the summer of 1969. The field operations for this multiagency national study of the ocean-atmosphere system were divided into four observation periods: May 3 to 15, May 24 to June 10, June 19 to July 2, and July 11 to july 28. The first three were devoted to the Sea Air Interaction Program--the BOMEX 'Core Experiment'--within a 500-km by 500-km square ship array. During the fourth period, the array was extended southward to incorporate the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

Following the field operations, the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Analysis Project (BOMAP) Office was established to reduce and process the data that had been collected by ship, aircraft, and land-based acquisition system under the operational control of the BOMEX Temporary Archive at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, N.C., in 1971.

On July 1,1971, the BOMEX office became the Center for Experiment Design and Data Analysis (CEDDA) and was subsequently transferred from NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories to its Environmental Data Service. One of the tasks assigned to CEDDA--in addition to its participation in other field experiments, was to reprocess the BOMEX data. Final validation of the data was undertaken through detailed analysis and application of necessary corrections, a task that was completed in the fall of 1974, when the BOMEX Permanent Archive was established at NCDC.

ATTRIBUTES

Entry_ID: NC00530 (MD Identifier: 611)
 
Temporal Coverage:
     From: 1969-05-01                 TO: 1969-07-31 
 
Geographic Coverage:
     Southwest Extent: 7N,60W      Northeast Extent:  18N,52W
 
Source:
     AIRCRAFT
     BALLOONS
     SHIPS
 
Sensor:
     BLIP>Boundary Layer Instrument Package
     RAWINSONDE
 
Storage Media:
     Magnetic Tape
 
Campaign/Project:
     CGC>NOAA Climate and Global Change Program
 
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > ATMOSPHERE
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > LAND
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > OCEAN
 
Location Keyword:
     ATLANTIC OCEAN>North Atlantic Ocean
     BOUNDARY LAYER
     EQUATORIAL
     TROPOSPHERE
 
Parameter Group, Parameter:
     ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION         > CLOUDS
        Cloud Heights
 
     ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION         > HUMIDITY
        Boundary Layer > Surface
 
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
        Upper Level>Surface
 
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > CLOUD TYPES
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > HUMIDITY
        Boundary Layer > Surface
 
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > PRECIPITATION
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > PRESSURE
        Surface Pressure
 
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > VISIBILITY
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > WINDS
        Boundary Layer > Surface
 
     HYDROLOGIC PARAMETERS           > PRECIPITATION
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > TEMPERATURE
        Sea Surface Temperature
 
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > WAVES
 
General Keywords:
     AMBIENT TEMPERATURE
     BLIP
     BOMEXSONDE
     BOUNDARY LAYER
     BOUNDARY LAYER HUMIDITY
     BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE
     BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS
     CLIMATOLOGY
     CLOUD HEIGHTS
     CONTANT PRESSURE SURFACES
     DIURNAL VARIATION
     HYGRISTOR TEMPERATURE
     METEOROLOGY
     NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
     OCEANOGRAPHY
     RAWINSONDE DATA
     SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
     SURFACE
     SURFACE HUMIDITY
     SURFACE TEMPERATURE
     SURFACE WINDS
     TD-9671
     UPPER LEVEL HUMIDITY
     UPPER LEVEL TEMPERATURE
     UPPER LEVEL WINDS
     WATER VAPOR CONTENT
     WEATHER
     WET BULB TEMPERATURE
 
Revision Date: 1993-02-08
                                             

DATACENTER

Archive: 
   NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC>National Climatic Data Center, NOAA
   Data Set ID: TD-9671 
 
   Contact: ROSS, THOMAS 
            NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
            Federal Building
            37 Battery Park Avenue
            Asheville, NC 28801-2733
            USA
 
            Electronic Mail: INTERNET> TROSS@NCDC.NOAA.GOV
 
            Phone: (704) 271-4994
                                             

PERSONNEL

Tech Contact: ROSS, THOMAS 
              NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
              Federal Building
              37 Battery Park Avenue
              Asheville, NC 28801-2733
              USA
 
              Electronic Mail: INTERNET> TROSS@NCDC.NOAA.GOV
 
              Phone: (704) 271-4994
 
Entry Author: STEURER, PETER 
              NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
              Federal Building
              37 Battery Park Avenue
              Asheville, NC 28801-2733
              USA
 
              Phone: (704) 271-4445
 
 
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