FASTEX Radiosounding stations


General Information
Datasets in the FASTEX Central Archive
Information on available data
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General Information
  • Description
    The land-based upper-air stations involved in the FASTEX enhanced radiosounding program are mostly regular stations of the WMO World Weather. These stations routinely perform soundings at 0000 UTC and 1200 UTC. Their basic contribution to FASTEX consisted of launching special 0600 UTC and 1800 UTC ascents.
    The one Irish, three French, and six UK participating stations performed the 0300 UTC, 0900 UTC, 1500 UTC, and 2100 UTC ascents during IOPs.
    The FASTEX enhanced radiosounding program was supported by AES (Canada), CNRS/INSU (France), DMI (Denmark), the European Commission, the Icelandic Met. Office, Meteo-France, Met Eireann (Ireland), NCAR/MMM (USA), the UK Met. Office, WMO/COSNA.
  • Location of these stations:

    More information on these stations

  • Data Providers
    Country Name Address
    Canada Dave Steenbergen AES 4905 Dufferin Street Downsview Ontario M3H 5T4
    Denmark Klaus Hedegaard DMI Lyngbyveg 100 DK-2100
    France   Meteo-France Instrumentation Dept. 7,rue Teisserenc de Bort BP202 78195 Trappes
    Iceland Flosi Sigurosson Meteorological Office Technical and Obs. Dept Bustadavegur 9 IS-140 Reykjavik
    Ireland Liam Burke Meteorological Office Instrumentation and Environmental Division Glasnevin Hill Dublin 9
    Portugal Renato Carvalho INMG Rua C. Aeroporto de Lisboa 1700 Lisboa
    Spain Cesar Belandia INM Servicio de Observacion, Camino dela Moreras s/n Ciudad Universitaria 28071 MADRID
    United Kingdom John Stancombe UK Met Office Upper Air Network London Road Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 2SZ
    USA Robert Thomas NOAA W/OSO14 SSMC/2 1325 East West Highway Silver Spring,MD 20910


    • Specialized data base :

  • UCAR/JOSS for high resolution radiosonde data


    • Data sets in the FASTEX Central Archive:

  • High resolution radiosonde data
  • Low resolution radiosonde data
  • Retrieved TEMP from hi. res radiosounding data

    • Information on available data in the FASTEX Central Archive
  • Low and High resolution radiosounding data per site
    • Dated: 25 Jun 1998
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