Rawinsonde  Data  Sources

   NOTE:  Be sure to save all data as Text (or ASCII) format.

   Archived & Historical Soundings

• NOAA/FSL -  Forecast Systems Laboratory (historical data).  Select single or multiple soundings.
• NCDC (National Climatic Data Center) - IGRA (Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive) data.
• PAOS - Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (University of Colorado at Boulder) format.

  Current Soundings

• UWYO - University of Wyoming.
• University at Albany (SUNY) - Dept of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences.
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography -  Climate Research Division.
• UCAR -  National Center for Atmospheric Research
• NHC Dropsondes -  National Hurricane Center's data from Hurricane Hunter planes

   Forecast Soundings

• BUFKIT -  Sequential data from NWS offices at Buffalo, NY
• GSD (Op/Bak/dev) -  Sequential data sets from NOAA/ESRL offices
• MAPS/RUC -  Sequential data sets from NOAA/FSL offices
• ARL -  NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory

   Microwave Profiler Soundings

• RADIOMETRIC -  Includes Temp, RH, Liquid-Water and Vapor-Density data
• NOAA ERSL -  Offers several types of sounding data

RAOB is being developed to access and decode all common sources and formats of sounding data.  If you have a data file which RAOB can not read, then please contact us and we'll try to include a data decoder in the next program release.

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