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Rationale for data collection: Radiosondes are released during atmospheric river conditions (integrated vapor transport exceeding 250 kg/ms) or to coincide with Atmospheric River Reconnaissance flights. Stations: USBOD = Bodega Bay, CA; 38.3 N 123.1 W USCAT = Catalina Island, CA; 33.4 N 118.5 W USSAL = Salton Sea, CA; 33.2 N 115.9 W USSIO = Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA; 32.9 N 117.3 W USUKI = Ukiah, CA; 39.1 N 123.1 W USYUB = Marysville, CA; 39.2 N 121.5 W USACE grant W912HZ-19-2-0023 USACE grant W912HZ-15-2-0019 Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Ralph, F. Martin; Wilson, Anna M.; Demirdjian, Reuben; Alden, Douglas; Hecht, Chad; Ellis, Carolyn J.; Kawzenuk, Brian; Cannon, Forest; Cooper, Ava; Paulsson, Kerstin (2021). Radiosonde Data Collected During California Storms. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J09P31S0 The raw data from the Vaisala radiosondes, which were originally in .mwx format, have been processed into .txt files and made available here. Details for each directory in the archive are as follows: Text files: Text file for each radiosonde launch including data for every level that was qualified as good data by sounding software. Filenames are formatted as station_yyyymmdd_hhmn.txt. Columns are year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, pressure (hPa), temperature (C), dew point (C), wind direction, wind speed (m/s), height (m), latitude, longitude Skew-Ts: Image files for all radiosonde launches, created by CW3E. Filenames are formatted as station_yyyymmdd_hhmn.png Bufr: Raw bufr files output from sounding software for all radiosonde launches. GTS_Files: Text files for all radiosonde launches decoded in WMO format for ingest in the GTS. Filenames are formatted as station_yyyymmdd_hhmn.txt.
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English
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Atmospheric rivers Precipitation Orographic precipitation Ukiah (Calif.) La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.) Bodega Bay (Calif.) Scripps Institute of Oceanography Marysville (Calif.) Salton Sea (Calif.) Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Place
Ukiah (Calif.) La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.) Bodega Bay (Calif.) Scripps Institute of Oceanography Marysville (Calif.) Salton Sea (Calif.) Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
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