Japan Research Vessel Seifu Maru High Resolution Radiosonde Data

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC). It includes 53 high vertical resolution (2-second) radiosonde soundings from the Japanese R/V Seifu Maru. The soundings were typically released two times per day (00 and 12 UTC) from 30 August to 28 September 2008. The soundings from R/V Seifu Maru were released in the Eastern China Sea to the west of Kyushu, Japan. The raw sounding data were made available by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). NCAR/EOL converted these soundings to the EOL Sounding Composite (ESC) columnar ASCII format and conducted a series of quality control checks.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2008-08-30T00:00:00Z
    End:  2008-09-28T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2008-08-30T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2008-09-28T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 31.97000
Bounding Box South Lat 31.40000
Bounding Box West Long 128.00000
Bounding Box East Long 128.44000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : Readme_T-PARC_SeifuMaru_soundings.html
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ESC: EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 22 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

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Author NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory ORCID icon
Japan Meteorological Agency ORCID icon
Publisher NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2010-06-17T09:26:41
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/FGAD-XME9-D809
Alternate Identifier 110.104
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:46:37Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::110.104
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory, Japan Meteorological Agency. (2010). Japan Research Vessel Seifu Maru High Resolution Radiosonde Data. 1.0. NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/FGAD-XME9-D809. Accessed 22 January 2026.

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