INCOMPASS: Radiosonde measurements from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) airstrip, Kanpur, India

This dataset contains temperature, humidity, wind and GPS location information recorded from 137 radiosondes launched during July 2016 as part of the NERC/MoES Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (INCOMPASS) field campaign. All radiosondes were launched from the airstrip of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, northern India, from the location 26.519N, 80.233E, 126m above sea level. Launches took place between 5th July and 28th July at 00, 06, 12, 18UTC. The Vaisala RS41-SG radiosondes were fitted to Totex TA350 balloons.

The data were collected as part of the INCOMPASS field campaign May-July 2016, funded by Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) (NE/L01386X/1). The aim of the project was to improve the skill of rainfall prediction in operational weather and climate models by way of better understanding and representation of interactions between the land surface, boundary layer, convection, the large-scale environment and monsoon variability on a range of scales.

Date (Publication): 2018-10-18T12:29:59

Date (Creation): 2018-10-18T12:29:59

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/28a48da1141447058f8d5323908e4b3d

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 28a48da1141447058f8d5323908e4b3d

Citation identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/28a48da1141447058f8d5323908e4b3d

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Reading		unknown	Author
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Turner, Andrew G.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Tripathi, Sachchida N.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	George, Geet	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Chakraborty, Tirthankar	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Fletcher, Jennifer K.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Hunt, Kieran	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Sarangi, Chandan	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Willetts, Peter J.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Recchia, Lucy	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Turner, Andrew G.	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

NERC
INCOMPASS
monsoon
radiosonde
temperature
humidity
wind

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

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Use constraints: Other restrictions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 2016-07-05T11:00:00

End date: 2016-07-28T22:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Data are netCDF formatted.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/28a48da1141447058f8d5323908e4b3d	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/sa-monsoon/data/incompass/radiosondes	DOWNLOAD

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: The Vaisala MW41 DigiCora sounding station receives radiosonde measurements via telemetry and stores them in a packaged (zipped) format consisting of XML files. Only the "SynchronizedSoundingData.xml" file has been used (one for each launch), and converted to Netcdf (by AG Turner during September 2018) using a program running in IDL8.5. The data were then sent to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archiving.