Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo; Haimberger, Leopold; Stickler, Alexander; Brönnimann, Stefan (2014): A global historical radiosondes and tracked balloons archive on standard pressure levels back to the 1920s, links to various archives in NetCDF format [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.823608, In supplement to: Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo; Haimberger, Leopold; Stickler, Alexander (2014): A global radiosonde and tracked balloon archive on 16 pressure levels (GRASP) back to 1905 - Part 1: Merging and interpolation to 00:00 and 12:00 GMT. Earth System Science Data, 6(1), 185-200, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-6-185-2014
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Dee, Dick P; Uppala, Sakari; Simmons, Adrian J; Berrisford, Paul; Poli, Paul; Kobayashi, Shinya; Andrae, U; Balmaseda, M A; Balsamo, Gianpaolo; Bauer, P; Bechtold, P; Beljaars, A C M; van de Berg, L; Bidlot, J; Bormann, N; Delsol, C; Dragani, R; Fuentes, Manuel; Geer, A J; Haimberger, Leopold; Healy, S B; Hersbach, Hans; Hólm, E V; Isaksen, L; Kållberg, Per; Köhler, M; Matricardi, M; McNally, A P; Monge-Sanz, B M; Morcrette, J-J; Park, Byong-Kwon; Peubey, C; de Rosnay, P; Tavolato, C; Thépaut, Jean-Noël; Vitart, F (2011): The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 137(656), 553-597, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.828
Durre, Imke; Vose, Russell S; Wuertz, David B (2006): Overview of the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive. Journal of Climate, 19(1), 53-68, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3594.1
Stickler, Alexander; Brönnimann, Stefan; Jourdain, Sylvie; Roucaute, Eméline; Sterin, Alexander M; Nikolaev, Dmitrii; Valente, Maria Antónia; Wartenburger, Richard; Hersbach, Hans; Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo; Dee, Dick P (2014): ERA-CLIM Historical Upper-Air Data 1900-1972. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.821222
Stickler, Alexander; Grant, A N; Ewen, T; Ross, T F; Vose, Russell S; Comeaux, J; Bessemoulin, P; Jylhä, K; Adam, Wolfgang K; Jeannet, P; Nagurny, A; Sterin, Alexander M; Allan, Rob; Compo, G P; Griesser, T; Brönnimann, Stefan (2010): The Comprehensive Historical Upper-Air Network. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91(6), 741-751, https://doi.org/10.1175/2009bams2852.2.s1
Uppala, Sakari; Kållberg, Per; Simmons, Adrian J; Andrae, U; Bechtold, P; Fiorino, M; Gibson, J K; Haseler, J; Hernandez, A; Kelly, G A; LI, X; Onogi, K; Saarinen, S; Sokka, N; Allan, R P; Andersson, E; Arpe, K; Balmaseda, M A; Beljaars, A C M; van de Berg, L; Bidlot, J; Bormann, N; Caires, S; Chevallier, Frédéric; Dethof, A; Dragosavac, M; Fisher, M; Fuentes, Manuel; Hagemann, S; Hólm, E V; Hoskins, B J; Isaksen, L; Janssen, P A E M; Jenne, Roy; McNally, A P; Mahfouf, J-F; Morcrette, J-J; Rayner, Nick A; Saunders, R W; Simon, P; Sterl, Andreas; Trenberth, Kevin E; Untch, A; Vasiljevic, D; Viterbo, P; Woollen, J (2005): The ERA-40 re-analysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 131(612), 2961-3012, https://doi.org/10.1256/qj.04.176
Wartenburger, Richard; Stickler, Alexander; Brönnimann, Stefan (in prep.): A novel physics-based adjustment of upper-air temperature and geopotential height.
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Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), grant/award no. 265229: European Reanalysis of Global Climate Observations
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reference of data | Ref data | Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo | |||
| 2 | Comment | Comment | Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo | |||
| 3 | File size | File size | kByte | Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo | ||
| 4 | Uniform resource locator/link to file | URL file | Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo | NetCDF format (zipped) |
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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36 data points
Data
| 1 Ref data | 2 Comment | 3 File size [kByte] | 4 URL file |
|---|---|---|---|
| this work | merged radiosonde/pilot archive | 6853974 | merged_archive.zip |
| this work | merged archive wind adjustments | 1292057 | raobcore_adjs.zip |
| Dee et al. 2011 | ECMWF ERA-Interim radiosonde input data | 10288796 | ERA_INTERIM.zip |
| Dee et al. 2011 | ECMWF ERA-Interim tracked balloon input data | 1654475 | ERA_INTERIM_PILOT.zip |
| Uppala et al. 2005 | ECMWF ERA-40 radiosonde input data | 6668891 | ERA_40.zip |
| Uppala et al. 2005 | ECMWF ERA-40 tracked balloon input data | 977626 | ERA_40_PILOT.zip |
| Durre et al. 2006, updated until 2012 | NOAA Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) input data | 5233787 | IGRA.zip |
| Stickler et al. 2010; Wartenburger et al. 2014 | CHUAN version 1.7 archive | 1222579 | CHUAN.zip |
| Stickler et al. 2014 | ERA-CLIM historical upper-air (ECUD) archive | 110813 | UPPER_ERACLIM.zip |