Legacy atmospheric sounding dataset project

Abstract

Observations from field campaigns over the past 50 years have led to significant advances in our understanding of many weather phenomena. However, with the passage of time a number of the older field datasets may become unrecoverable for a variety of reasons. Over the course of the past two years, we have embarked on a project to identify, locate, and archive field campaign sounding datasets, which have considerable value to the atmospheric science community. While reasonable progress has been made, a number of key datasets have yet to be located. In this regard, we are soliciting the assistance of the atmospheric science community to help us locate these missing datasets. If you are aware of sounding data sources from older field campaigns for which our holdings are incomplete (see the table at www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/legacy), we ask that you contact us via this web link. Additional details regarding this project can be found at the website. Once the project is closer to completion, an article will be prepared to document the effort and notify the community about the availability of the data. © 2012 american meteorological society.