Exemplary sounding dataset - sample from LBF North Platte (WMO ID: 72562) - 03 July 1999, 00:00 UTC

The object contains pre-downloaded sounding dataset from University of Wyoming sounding database. Dataset can be downloaded with the following syntax: northplatte = get_sounding(wmo_id = 72562, yy = 1999, mm = 7, dd = 3, hh = 00)

data("northplatte")

Format

A data frame with 71 rows and 6 variables as described in `get_sounding()`

pressure: pressure [hPa]
altitude: altitude [m]
temp: temperature [degree Celsius]
dpt: dew point temperature [degree Celsius]
wd: wind direction [azimuth as degrees]
ws: wind speed [knots]

Source

http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

Examples

data(northplatte)
head(northplatte)
#>   pressure altitude temp  dpt  wd ws
#> 2    972.0      287 24.0 13.0 130 12
#> 3    970.0      305 24.1 12.8 130 13
#> 4    964.0      359 24.2 12.2 134 16
#> 5    936.6      610 22.2 11.6 150 31
#> 6    925.0      718 21.4 11.4 150 32
#> 7    904.1      914 19.9 10.2 160 33