Data · dataset · 2026
NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Observations, 1992May-continuing
Listed in National Center for Atmospheric Research
The NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) has 35 unmanned Doppler Radar sites in 18 central US states and Alaska.
Description
They provide hourly vertical profiles of wind data. The hourly netCDF files disseminated from Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) of NOAA starting from May 1992 are archived in this dataset.
It continues to be updated monthly. U and V wind components from 500 meters above ground level to 16.25 kilometers are recorded at every 250m increment. Several stations may have been moved or added.
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Problems of bird contamination are also reported. Flags are used to indicate the quality of data. A detailed description of the NOAA Profiler Network is available at NCEP's NPN site [madis.ncep.noaa.gov/madis_npn.shtml].
Links
Get the data
- Publisher page gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d359000 ↗
documentation · download · from data ucar edu
Where it is published
- data.ucar.edu /dataset/noaa-profiler-network-npn-observations-1992may-continu… ↗
National Center for Atmospheric Research dataset page
landing page · from data ucar edu
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=273af855-9359-436f-9bd6-24b63d140… ↗
metadata API · from data ucar edu
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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| National Center for Atmospheric Research | 273af855-9359-436f-9bd6-24b63d140adb | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /notes |
| publication_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 |