Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment: Conventional Data User's Guide

摘要

The purpose of this technical note is to provide information regarding the Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment (TAMEX) conventional data archived at the U.S. TAMEX Data Center located at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The observation network, quality of the data, data format, data inventory, and data acquisition procedures are described. The TAMEX observation network consists of one NOAA P-3 aircraft, three ground-based C-band Doppler radars, five conventional radars, one VHF Doppler radar, one minisonde station, twelve rawinsonde stations, ten pibal stations, 74 surface stations, 126 raingauge stations, and 21 tower stations. Data were collected from the area of 20-29 deg N, 114-130 deg E during May-June 1987. Fourteen datasets are available, including: (1) Mesonet IOP surface and rainfall data, (2) Mesonet IOP/SOP high resolution upper-air data, (3) IOP data in FGGE format within the TAMEX data area, (4) Minisonde data, (5) P-3 aircraft dropwindsonde data, (6) VHF radar upper-air wind profiler data, (7) Hourly and three-hourly CWB surface data in radar upper-air wind profiler data, (7) Hourly and three-hourly CWB surface data in May and June 1987, (8) TAMEX daily average and extreme values surface data, (9) Boundary layer (Tower) wind data, (10) P-3 aircraft meteorological data, (11) WMO weather coded data in the TAMEX area, (12) Conventional radar data, (13) Balloon position data, and (14) Mainland China surface and upper-air data.