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    • SAFARI 2000 Upper Air Meteorological Profiles, South Africa, Dry Season 2000

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    The University of Wyoming has a series of balloonborne radiosonde measurements from all around the world, from the surface to 30 km. This data set contains upper air meteorological profiles from 594 radiosonde launches deployed from sites in South Africa. These sonde launches were made to augment the regional sounding network in the region during the SAFARI 2000 Dry Season Campaign of 2000.Vaisala RS80 sondes were launched from nine sites in South Africa between August 1, 2000 and September 30, 2000. The launch sites were Pietersburg (changed to Polokwane after 2000), Pretoria (Irene), Bethlehem, Springbok, De Aar, Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Gough Island. The parameters measured by the radiosonde instruments include: pressure, air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and wind direction.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date November 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 1, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2789021046-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2023-10-18
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-10-24
    Category SAFARI 2000, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation University of Wyoming, Department of Atmospheric Science. 2004. SAFARI 2000 Upper Air Meteorological Profiles, South Africa, Dry Season 2000. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/729
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    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/729
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -10.0 -41.0 31.0 -24.0
    Program Code 026:001
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    Source Hash f9522874d92938a77a0e0861301cc66c8f2d35eff1763a86e43b5b2abefff991
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2000-08-01T00:00:00Z/2000-09-30T23:59:59Z

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