NWS Slidell GTS Mandatory/Significant Level Sounding Data

This is one of the upper air data sets developed for the Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX). It includes 56 mandatory / significant level soundings from Slidell, LA site (WMO 72233). Soundings were typically released twice per day (0000 and 1200 UTC) from 1 Aug to 29 Aug 2005. The high resolution soundings for the Slidell, LA site for the month of August were lost due to Hurricane Katrina. The September high resolution data for Slidell, LA is included in the NOAA/NWS Rawinsonde Data [NCAR/EOL] Data Set.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2005-08-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2005-08-29T23:59:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2005-08-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2005-08-29T23:59:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 30.40000
Bounding Box South Lat 30.30000
Bounding Box West Long -89.90000
Bounding Box East Long -89.80000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : README_RAINEX_slidell_sounding.html

88.040 : is a companion to dataset 88.065
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ESC: EOL Sounding Composite Format (ASCII)
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 1 MB
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Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization N/A
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Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Author N/A
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Publication Date 2008-10-07T06:50:45
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/86NR-Z8WG-EK13
Alternate Identifier 88.065
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:06:35Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::88.065
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation (2008). NWS Slidell GTS Mandatory/Significant Level Sounding Data. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/86NR-Z8WG-EK13. Accessed 05 August 2025.

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