Summary of Winds Aloft for U.S. Stations (WBAN-22)

BRIEF

This data set contains wind direction and wind speed at specified heights above the surface obtained from pibals and rawins listed on this form in station, year, month, day, by hour of observation. Scheduled hours of observations changed on June 1, 1957 from 03, 09, 15 and 21 GMT to 00, 06, 12 and 18 GMT. Although routine preparation of this form was discontinued January 1, 1965, it is available for at least a 5-10 year period prior to that date for a large number of U.S. operated stations. Provisions exist on these forms for listing wind direction and speed at heights up to 42,000 meters. The first page contains data in 12 five-column fields from the surface through 6,000 meters. Page 2 contains data from 7,000 through 18,000 meters, when available, etc. Heights have varied over the years and, in general, wind observations reached greater heights in the early 1960's than in the 1940's or 1950's. High level wind data (above 50,000 meters) are available in published and summarized form for selected stations in the rocketsonde network.

ATTRIBUTES

Entry_ID: FA00356 (MD Identifier: 541)
 
Temporal Coverage:
     From: 1940-01-01                 TO: 1965-01-01 
 
Geographic Coverage:
     Southwest Extent: 30N,125W    Northeast Extent:  60N,65W
 
Source:
     GROUND STATIONS
 
Sensor:
     PIBAL
     RAWINSONDE
 
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > ATMOSPHERE
 
Location Keyword:
     BOUNDARY LAYER
     MID-LATITUDE
     NORTH AMERICA
     TROPOSPHERE
 
Parameter Group, Parameter:
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > WINDS
 
General Keywords:
     CLIMATOLOGY
     CONSTANT PRESSURE
     HOURLY DATA
     MANUSCRIPT RECORD
     PRESSURE LEVELS
     UPPER AIR
     UPPER AIR OBSERVATIONS
     UPPER AIR WINDS
     WB-120
     WBAN-22
     WEATHER OBSERVATIONS
     WIND DIRECTION
     WIND SPEED
     WINDS ALOFT
 
Revision Date: 1993-02-18

DATACENTER

Archive: 
   NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC>National Climatic Data Center, NOAA
   Data Set ID: WBAN-22 
 
   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

Entry Author: STEURER, PETER 
              NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
              Federal Building
              37 Battery Park Avenue
              Asheville, NC 28801-2733
              USA
 
              Phone: (704) 271-4445
 
 
Information in this entry provided by NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

REFERENCE


NOAA Product Information Catalog.  1988.  Washington, DC:  US Dept. of
Commerce, 171 pp.

NOAA Polar Orbiting Data User's Guide.  1988.  Washington, DC:  US Dept. of
Commerce.

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