PACS-97 Upper Air Soundings from the R/V Ron Brown

This dataset consists of sounding data from the PACS-97 (TEPPS; Tropical Eastern Pacific Process Study) cruise of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ship Ron Brown. Soundings were released from 2 to 12 times per day at various times of the cruise. The cruise started in Panama, went to 8N 125W, then San Diego, and finally to a subtropical location.

The cruise started 28 July 1997 and ended 6 September 1997.

These data were processed through automated and visual quality control. This data set includes pressure, temperature, dew point, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and altitude taken at 2 second vertical intervals.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1997-07-28T00:00:00Z
    End:  1997-09-06T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1997-07-28T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1997-09-06T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 32.50000
Bounding Box South Lat 6.90000
Bounding Box West Long -129.40000
Bounding Box East Long -79.50000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : ronbrown.txt
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ESC: EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 94 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

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Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Distributor NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
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Author NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory ORCID icon
Yolande L. Serra ORCID icon
Sandra E. Yuter ORCID icon
Publisher NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2011-08-24T11:09:17
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/5C6N-N19B-7506
Alternate Identifier 2.223
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-07T21:47:04Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::2.223
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory, Yolande L. Serra, Sandra E. Yuter. (2011). PACS-97 Upper Air Soundings from the R/V Ron Brown. 1.0. NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/5C6N-N19B-7506. Accessed 27 January 2026.

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