GOESWATER - Soundings of Dew Point and Temperature Derived from GOES Data
Information updated on Wed Sep 6 17:47:57 2006
General Data Description
These data are soundings of dew point and temperature over the SGP CART site derived from GOES soundings from the University of Wisconsin, CIMSS/SSEC.The sgpgoeswater data are only available in ASCII. The sgpg8prof and sgg12prof data have been converted to netcdf format.
Data are missing for days in which no clear conditions existed over the CART site and/or auxiliary data (separate from GOES radiance) necessary to do the retrieval were missing.
The data stream sgpg8prof and sgpg12prof (formerly known as sgpgoeswaterX1.00) include hourly, rather than three hourly, retrievals and cover the boundary facilities as well as the central facility.
Data Stream Names
sgpgoeswaterX1.00 (these data are ascii text)
sgpg12profB1.a1
sgpg12profB4.a1
sgpg12profB5.a1
sgpg12profB6.a1
sgpg12profC1.a1
sgpg8profB1.a1
sgpg8profB4.a1
sgpg8profB5.a1
sgpg8profB6.a1
sgpg8profC1.a1
Measurement Description
sgpgoeswaterThere is a slight bug in the retrieval in that the 2300 hour from day i frequently ends up at the end of the file for day i+1. Each record does have an identifier so it will be possible to put the records in the proper place but the user should be alert for this condition.
The file sgpgoeswaterX1.00.970217.000000.raw is listed below.
RTQ1 HMS LAT LON T TD P Z RT 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 282.56 272.77 992.0 283 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 1000.0 229 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 283.20 270.88 950.0 649 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 283.57 270.09 920.0 916 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 281.55 267.29 850.0 1572 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 278.18 263.56 780.0 2277 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 274.33 258.98 700.0 3154 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 272.61 256.44 670.0 3505 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 268.84 251.49 620.0 4121 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 264.13 245.99 570.0 4778 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 256.68 237.58 500.0 5777 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 253.79 234.21 475.0 6161 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 247.94 230.49 430.0 6892 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 243.50 226.37 400.0 7413 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 234.86 221.23 350.0 8348 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 225.45 216.65 300.0 9387 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 216.90 211.81 250.0 10569 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 210.53 207.18 200.0 11965 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 211.60 203.94 150.0 13744 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 210.40 202.21 135.0 14395 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 208.73 199.28 115.0 15379 21 7197048 30042 36.6105 97.6100 207.36 196.83 100.0 16231 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 280.70 275.11 992.0 273 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 1000.0 213 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 281.27 273.86 950.0 634 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 283.07 272.31 920.0 899 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 282.29 269.50 850.0 1556 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 279.10 262.66 780.0 2264 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 275.17 254.33 700.0 3143 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 273.37 252.07 670.0 3495 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 269.63 249.00 620.0 4112 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 264.93 246.49 570.0 4771 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 256.89 241.03 500.0 5773 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 253.58 238.13 475.0 6156 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 247.20 235.51 430.0 6886 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 242.59 232.00 400.0 7405 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 234.41 225.76 350.0 8338 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 224.60 217.08 300.0 9374 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 217.64 212.39 250.0 10555 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 213.73 208.97 200.0 11965 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 212.73 203.75 150.0 13762 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 211.55 202.02 135.0 14416 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 209.80 199.10 115.0 15406 21 7197048 90004 36.5742 97.5916 208.31 197.39 100.0 16261 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 292.01 275.81 988.0 267 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 1000.0 177 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 287.82 279.85 950.0 610 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 285.36 278.11 920.0 881 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 282.65 271.02 850.0 1541 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 280.12 263.84 780.0 2250 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 275.50 258.76 700.0 3132 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 273.48 256.58 670.0 3485 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 269.22 252.14 620.0 4102 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 264.00 245.80 570.0 4758 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 256.07 229.92 500.0 5757 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 252.57 241.21 475.0 6139 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 246.24 243.81 430.0 6866 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 242.04 241.55 400.0 7383 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 235.54 235.07 350.0 8318 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 226.00 222.84 300.0 9360 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 220.43 217.18 250.0 10552 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 218.52 213.98 200.0 11986 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 215.44 207.22 150.0 13815 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 213.37 205.39 135.0 14476 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 210.13 202.19 115.0 15471 21 7197048 180007 36.5831 97.6199 207.27 200.04 100.0 16325 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 287.21 272.97 992.0 290 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 1000.0 228 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 285.83 271.16 950.0 653 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 283.93 269.88 920.0 922 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 280.37 265.64 850.0 1577 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 277.18 263.68 780.0 2279 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 273.14 260.75 700.0 3153 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 271.61 258.56 670.0 3503 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 268.11 254.13 620.0 4116 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 263.54 248.55 570.0 4771 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 256.06 237.26 500.0 5769 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 253.18 234.21 475.0 6151 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 247.34 230.55 430.0 6881 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 242.87 226.14 400.0 7400 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 234.24 219.68 350.0 8333 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 224.69 213.98 300.0 9369 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 215.88 210.19 250.0 10546 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 209.57 206.33 200.0 11936 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 211.82 203.29 150.0 13712 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 210.69 201.60 135.0 14364 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 209.02 198.72 115.0 15349 21 7197048 42 36.6147 97.6900 207.62 195.10 100.0 16202 21 The first field is xxyyddd, where yy is the year, ddd is the julian day, and xx is mcidas convention for satellite and instrument number (i.e. 70 - Goes8 Sounder, 71 - Goes8 Imager, 72 - Goes9 Sounder, 73 - Goes9 Imager) The second field is the time in UTC (hhmmss). T and TD are temperature and dew point, both in K. P is pressure in millibars. Mcidas does a listing for the retrieval data at 40 levels, a surface measurement and 39 even levels above the surface. If the surface pressure is greater than 1000.00 mb, the 1000.0 mb line WOULD have information. Z is the height above sea level in meters. RT stands for Retrieval Type and takes the value 21 (clear retrieval) or 23 (low clouds were present during the retrieval).sgpg12prof and sgpg8prof
These data files contain the same measurements as the sgpgoeswater data files.
Temporal Coverage
sgpg12profB1.a1 04/11/2003 - 6/26/2006sgpg12profB4.a1 04/11/2003 - 6/26/2006
sgpg12profB5.a1 04/11/2003 - 6/26/2006
sgpg12profB6.a1 04/12/2003 - 6/26/2006
sgpg12profC1.a1 04/11/2003 - 6/26/2006
sgpg8profB1.a1 01/01/1999 - 04/09/2003
sgpg8profB4.a1 01/01/1999 - 04/09/2003
sgpg8profB5.a1 01/01/1999 - 04/09/2003
sgpg8profB6.a1 01/01/1999 - 04/10/2003
sgpg8profC1.a1 01/01/1999 - 04/09/2003
sgpgoeswaterX1.00 08/01/1996 - 09/30/1997
Area Covered
The soundings cover the SGP Central Facility and the Boundary Facilities.Data Stream Inputs
sgpg12profX1.00sgpg8profX1.00
sgpgoeswaterX1.00
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CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite SGP Southern Great Plains SSEC Space Science and Engineering Center
