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Updated: 2 February 1999 Data set source
Information on available data in the FASTEX Central Archive
site number of soundings 29 ground stations 6785 The KNORR 282 Le SUROIT 271 The Victor Bugaev 283 The Ægir 264 ASAP Ships 506
Quality Control Processing
Each set of data was validated by the data providers before
sending it to the FASTEX Central Archive.
Skew-T plots of each sounding are produced and manually
reviewed for internal consistency.
Consistency between low-resolution and high-resolution data are checked.
Automated quality control procedures (gross limit checks and vertical
consistency checks) and visual quality control procedures.
Data format
All upper air soundings were converted to the UCAR/JOSS
CLASS Format (OCF). OCF is an ASCII format
consisting of 15 header records for each sounding followed by the
data records with associated QC information.
References
Snyder, J. P., 1987:
Map Projections - A Working Manual. United States
Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395, 383 pp.
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