R/V Le SUROIT (French ship)


General Information
Datasets in the FASTEX Central Archive
Information on available data
Data selection page

General Information

  • Description
  • Name : R/V Le Suroit
  • Location:
  • during FASTEX: near to 35W:45N (North to the surface front).
    Near to this point, measurements are available between the 11 January and the 28 January, and between the 3 February and the 28 February.
  • Instruments
  • VAISALA radiosounding with GPS wind: 4 soundings a day, each 90 minutes during 18 hours IOP
  • Surface meteorological measurements
  • NCAR UHF Wind Profiler
  • 3D sonic anemometers and fast hygrometers.
  • More precisions in the SUROIT instrumentation page


    • Data sets in the FASTEX Central Archive:

  • High resolution radiosonde data
  • Low resolution radiosonde data collected from the GTS
  • Ships Surface in-situ data
  • Automatic measurements from the Meteo-France/BATOS station (code FZVN0)
    Data validated by the data providers (9 March 1999).
  • Operator measurements from the on board instruments (code FZVN1)
  • 1-minute average data (meteorological and oceanic data)
  • Wind profilers data
  • Ships surface fluxes
  • Retrieved TEMP from hi. res radiosounding data

    • Information on available data in the FASTEX Central Archive
  • number of data for each day
    • Updated: 2 Sept 1999
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