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RADIO_4M_DAT

Comment:
This Table contains data collected during radiossounding campaign by 4M (Meteo France).
Principal investigator:
Pierre BESSEMOULIN
The fields of the table are:
  1. GRID_ID : This column contains the name of the grid where the data was taken.
  2. GRID_ORDER : This column contains the number of the station in the grid cell.
  3. OBS_DATE : This column contains the date on which the observation was made in the format DD-MMM-YY.
  4. OBS_TIME : This column contains the time when the observation was made, in GMT.
  5. CHRONO : This column contains the passed time since launch ( s ).
  6. ALTITUDE : This column contains the altitude ( m ).
  7. PRESSURE : This column contains the pressure ( hPa ).
  8. AIR_TEMPERATURE : This column contains the air temperature ( degrees C ).
  9. HUMIDITY : This column contains the humidity ( % ).
  10. WIND_SPEED : This column contains the wind speed ( m s-1 ).
  11. WIND_DIRECTION : This column contains the wind direction (degrees, 0=North, 90=East).
  12. DEW_POINT : This column contains the dew point ( degrees C ).
  13. VAPOR_TENSION : This column contains the vapor tension ( hPa ).
  14. TBLEUE : This column contains the pseudo-adiabatic wet bulb (thermometer) temperature ( degrees C ).
  15. TETAE : This column contains the pontential equivalent temperature ( degrees C ).
  16. TETA : This column contains the potential temperature ( degrees C ).
  17. TETAW : This column contains the pseudo-adiabatic potential wet bulb temperature ( degrees C ).
  18. MIXING_RATIO : This column contains the mixing ratio ( g kg-1 ).
  19. WIND_ZONAL : This column contains the zonal wind component ( m s-1 ).
  20. WIND_MERID : This column contains the meridional wind component ( m s-1 ).
  21. LATITUDE : This column contains the latitude (degrees, positive = East, negative = West).
  22. LONGITUDE : This column contains the longitude (degrees, positive = North, negative = South ).
  23. CERT_LEVEL : This column contains the certification level for the data : T)est,C)hecked by PI, U)nchecked by PI.
  24. REV_DATE : This column contains the revision date for the data in the format DD-MMM-YY.
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