BAS Main Index
The data in this directory was collected from the GTS. It is available for use by the community. If you use it, please contact us to let us know. In return, we ask for an acknowledgment in any papers written, in a form similar to:
"Radiosonde data from Antarctic stations from the database of Connolley and King (1993) was provided by W. M. Connolley at the British Antarctic Survey, http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/data/wmc-radiosonde-export/."
The appropriate citation is:
Connolley, W.M. and J.C. King. 1993. Atmospheric water-vapour transport to Antarctica inferred from radiosonde data. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc. 119, 325-342.
[ Additional data from CLIMAT TEMPs ]
The data files are text files gzipped to save space. The perl script station.pl may be used for further processing.
The files are a succession of ascents, one following to the next. Each ascent is four header lines, then the data levels:
identyymmddhh 100nl lat lon 0 hour day month year sector 0 sfcpthen "nl" lines of:
pressure height temperature dewtemperature winddir windspeed qcthen the next header.
Note that lat, lon, sector and qc are always present but usually zero or null coded. The missing data value is -9999 (integer) and -9999.0 (real).
For example:
8900180010100 10015 0.0000000E+00 0.0000000E+00 1 1 80 1073 985 985 52 270.3000 269.7000 -9999 -9999 98 ...13 lines removed... 2 -9999 239.1000 -9999.000 -9999 -9999 98 8900180010200 ...file continues...
The units are:
Temperature (+dewt): K Wind speed: M/S Direction: Degrees Height: M Pressure: HPA
The files are listed as follows. Note that if they are picked up by netscape (at least with my configuration) the default save name will be "yy.mm.txt" (ie without the .gz suffix), but the files will still be gzipped .
80.01.txt.gz 80.02.txt.gz 80.03.txt.gz 80.04.txt.gz 80.05.txt.gz 80.06.txt.gz 80.07.txt.gz 80.08.txt.gz 80.09.txt.gz 80.10.txt.gz 80.11.txt.gz 80.12.txt.gz 81.01.txt.gz 81.02.txt.gz 81.03.txt.gz 81.04.txt.gz 81.05.txt.gz 81.06.txt.gz 81.07.txt.gz 81.08.txt.gz 81.09.txt.gz 81.10.txt.gz 81.11.txt.gz 81.12.txt.gz 82.01.txt.gz 82.02.txt.gz 82.03.txt.gz 82.04.txt.gz 82.05.txt.gz 82.06.txt.gz 82.07.txt.gz 82.08.txt.gz 82.09.txt.gz 82.10.txt.gz 82.11.txt.gz 82.12.txt.gz 88.01.txt.gz 88.02.txt.gz 88.03.txt.gz 88.04.txt.gz 88.05.txt.gz 88.06.txt.gz 88.07.txt.gz 88.08.txt.gz 88.09.txt.gz 88.10.txt.gz 88.11.txt.gz 88.12.txt.gz 89.01.txt.gz 89.02.txt.gz 89.03.txt.gz 89.04.txt.gz 89.05.txt.gz 89.06.txt.gz 89.07.txt.gz 89.08.txt.gz 89.09.txt.gz 89.10.txt.gz 89.11.txt.gz 89.12.txt.gz 90.01.txt.gz 90.02.txt.gz 90.03.txt.gz 90.04.txt.gz 90.05.txt.gz 90.06.txt.gz 90.07.txt.gz 90.08.txt.gz 90.09.txt.gz 90.10.txt.gz 90.11.txt.gz 90.12.txt.gz
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