"GOESWATER" VAP Process
Instrument Categories: Atmospheric Profiling, Satellite Observations
Description: Water Profiles from GOES Satellite Data
General Overview
These data are soundings of dew point and temperature over the Southern Great Plains site derived from Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (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 datastream sgpg8prof and sgpg12prof (formerly known as sgpgoeswaterX1.00) include hourly, rather than three hourly, retrievals and cover the SGP Boundary Facilities as well as the Central Facility.
Value-Added Products (VAPs) Produced
- g12prof - GOES-12: water vapor and temperature profiles
- g8prof - GOES-8: water vapor and temperature profiles
Primary Measurements
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers for the list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
Sites / Facilities
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- Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
- Hillsboro, KS (Boundary) (B1)
- Morris, OK (Boundary) (B5)
- Purcell, OK (B6)
- Vici, OK (Boundary) (B4)
