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INCOMPASS: Radiosonde measurements from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) airstrip, Kanpur, India

This dataset contains temperature, humidity, wind and GPS location information recorded from 137 radiosondes launched during July 2016 as part of the NERC/MoES Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (INCOMPASS) field campaign. All radiosondes were launched from the airstrip of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, northern India, from the location 26.519N, 80.233E, 126m above sea level. Launches took place between 5th July and 28th July at 00, 06, 12, 18UTC. The Vaisala RS41-SG radiosondes were fitted to Totex TA350 balloons.

The data were collected as part of the INCOMPASS field campaign May-July 2016, funded by Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) (NE/L01386X/1). The aim of the project was to improve the skill of rainfall prediction in operational weather and climate models by way of better understanding and representation of interactions between the land surface, boundary layer, convection, the large-scale environment and monsoon variability on a range of scales.

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Date (Publication)
2018-10-18T12:29:59
Date (Creation)
2018-10-18T12:29:59
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/28a48da1141447058f8d5323908e4b3d
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 28a48da1141447058f8d5323908e4b3d
Identifier
doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/28a48da1141447058f8d5323908e4b3d
Author
  University of Reading - author
Author
  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - author
Author
  Unavailable - Turner, Andrew G. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Tripathi, Sachchida N. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - George, Geet ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Chakraborty, Tirthankar ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Fletcher, Jennifer K. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Hunt, Kieran ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Sarangi, Chandan ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Willetts, Peter J. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Recchia, Lucy ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Owner
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - data_owner
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Turner, Andrew G. ( principal_investigator )
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Keywords
  • NERC
  • INCOMPASS
  • monsoon
  • radiosonde
  • temperature
  • humidity
  • wind
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2016-07-05T11:00:00
End date
2016-07-28T22:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are netCDF formatted. ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The Vaisala MW41 DigiCora sounding station receives radiosonde measurements via telemetry and stores them in a packaged (zipped) format consisting of XML files. Only the "SynchronizedSoundingData.xml" file has been used (one for each launch), and converted to Netcdf (by AG Turner during September 2018) using a program running in IDL8.5. The data were then sent to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving.
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28a48da1141447058f8d5323908e4b3d XML
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Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
INCOMPASS: radiosonde and in-situ airborne observations by the FAAM BAE-146 aircraft 1873b605e2a74cac8b4f5d12593e54fc
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Date stamp
2025-11-16T03:15:30
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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