Ship- and island-based soundings from the 2016 El Niño Rapid Response (ENRR) field campaign

Hartten, Leslie M.; Cox, Christopher J.; Johnston, Paul E.; Wolfe, Daniel E.; Abbott, Scott; McColl, H. Alex; Quan, Xiao-Wei; Winterkorn, Matthew G.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1165-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1165-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1165-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

20 Jun 2018

| 20 Jun 2018

Ship- and island-based soundings from the 2016 El Niño Rapid Response (ENRR) field campaign

Leslie M. Hartten, Christopher J. Cox, Paul E. Johnston, Daniel E. Wolfe, Scott Abbott, H. Alex McColl, Xiao-Wei Quan, and Matthew G. Winterkorn

Data sets

El Niño Rapid Response (ENRR) Field Campaign: Radiosonde Data (Level 2) from the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown, February-March 2016 (NCEI Accession 0161527) C. Cox, D. Wolfe, L. Hartten, and P. Johnston https://doi.org/10.7289/V5X63K15

El Niño Rapid Response (ENRR) Field Campaign: Radiosonde Data (Level 2) from Kiritimati Island, January-March 2016 (NCEI Accession 0161525) L. Hartten, P. Johnston, C. Cox, and D. Wolfe https://doi.org/10.7289/V55Q4T5K

Short summary

Radiosonde data collected during NOAA's El Niño Rapid Response Field Campaign in early 2016 have been reprocessed and lightly quality controlled. Temperature, humidity, and wind soundings from Kiritimati and NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown capture the repeated advance and retreat of the ITCZ at Kiritimati, a variety of marine tropospheric environments encountered by the ship, and lower-stratospheric features of the 2015 2016 QBO (quasi-biennial oscillation).