The Ægir (Icelandic Coast Guard)


General Information
Datasets in the FASTEX Central Archive
Information on available data
Data selection page

General Information

  • Description
  • Name : The Ægir
  • Location:
  • during FASTEX: 35W:50N (Northest Fastex ship)
  • Measurements:
  • between 3rd January and 30th January,
  • and between 3rd February and 25th February
  • Instruments
  • VAISALA radiosounding with GPS wind: 4 soundings a day, each 90 minutes during 18 hours IOP
  • surface meteorological instruments
  • Data sets in the FASTEX Central Archive:

  • High resolution radiosonde data
  • Real time radiosonde data sent to the GTS
  • Ships Surface in-situ data
  • Automatic measurements from the Meteo-France/BATOS station (code TFTA).
    Data validated by the data providers (9 March 1999).
  • Operator measurements from the Icelandic instruments (code TFTA1)
  • Retrieved TEMP from hi. res radiosounding data
  • Information on available data in the FASTEX Central Archive

  • number of data for each day
  • Additional information on high resolution soundings
  • Additional information on surface data

  • Updated: 2 sept 1999
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