/* DATA DESCRIPTION: Citation: 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. 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. 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Further details: Additional metadata (URI: https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/metadata.zip) IDL routine to read NetCDF files (URI: https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/read_routines.zip) Project(s): European Reanalysis of Global Climate Observations (ERA-CLIM) (URI: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/265229) Funding: Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), grant/award no. 265229: European Reanalysis of Global Climate Observations (URI: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/265229) Parameter(s): Reference of data (Ref data) * PI: Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo (lorenzo.ramella-pralungo@univie.ac.at, http://img.univie.ac.at/en/research/tm/staff/ramella-pralungo/) Comment (Comment) * PI: Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo (lorenzo.ramella-pralungo@univie.ac.at, http://img.univie.ac.at/en/research/tm/staff/ramella-pralungo/) File size [kByte] (File size) * PI: Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo (lorenzo.ramella-pralungo@univie.ac.at, http://img.univie.ac.at/en/research/tm/staff/ramella-pralungo/) Uniform resource locator/link to file (URL file) * PI: Ramella Pralungo, Lorenzo (lorenzo.ramella-pralungo@univie.ac.at, http://img.univie.ac.at/en/research/tm/staff/ramella-pralungo/) * COMMENT: NetCDF format (zipped) License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0) (URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) Size: 36 data points */ Ref data Comment File size [kByte] URL file this work merged radiosonde/pilot archive 6853974 https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/merged_archive/merged_archive.zip this work merged archive wind adjustments 1292057 https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/raobcore_adjs/raobcore_adjs.zip Dee et al. 2011 ECMWF ERA-Interim radiosonde input data 10288796 https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/ERA-INTERIM/ERA_INTERIM.zip Dee et al. 2011 ECMWF ERA-Interim tracked balloon input data 1654475 https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/ERA-INTERIM_PILOT/ERA_INTERIM_PILOT.zip Uppala et al. 2005 ECMWF ERA-40 radiosonde input data 6668891 https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/ERA-40/ERA_40.zip Uppala et al. 2005 ECMWF ERA-40 tracked balloon input data 977626 https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/ERA-40_PILOT/ERA_40_PILOT.zip Durre et al. 2006, updated until 2012 NOAA Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) input data 5233787 https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/IGRA/IGRA.zip Stickler et al. 2010; Wartenburger et al. 2014 CHUAN version 1.7 archive 1222579 https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/CHUAN/CHUAN.zip Stickler et al. 2014 ERA-CLIM historical upper-air (ECUD) archive 110813 https://store.pangaea.de/Publications/Ramella-Pralungo_etal_2014/ECUD/UPPER_ERACLIM.zip