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Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) Ozonesonde Data Archive

Formerly the Upper Air Instrumentation Research Project (UAIRP)
Wallops Flight Facility Ozonesondes

Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) Ozonesondes

Wallops Island, Virginia, USA (digital record: July 1995 - present)

  • The NASA Wallops Flight Facility is the longest continuously operating ozonesonde station in the continental US (since 1970).

  • A major milestone was recently achieved with the reprocessing of the WFF ozone profiles during the digital measurement era (since 1995) to remove known biases and improve overall accuracy (See Witte et al. (2019) for more details).

  • The non-homogenized data for the pre-digital era (1970-1995) can be found at the World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC). The digital era record (most up-to-date data) is below in SHADOZ V06 data format and the data can be found in NASA Ames format at the NDACC Data Housing Facility (DHF).

  • Other measurements taken at Wallops include daily Dobson spectrophotometer (#038) ozone vertical column density observations starting in June 1967 available at: the NDACC Data Housing Facility (DHF) and the World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC).

    Principal Investigator: Ryan M. Stauffer

    		NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Email: ryan.m.stauffer@nasa.gov
    Launch operator: Katherine R. Wolff

    		Science Systems and Applications Inc. at
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Wallops Flight Facility
    Wallops Island, Virginia 23337
    Data managers: E. Tom Northam

    		Science Systems and Applications Inc. at
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Wallops Flight Facility
    Wallops Island, Virginia 23337

    		Debra E. Kollonige

    		Science Systems annd Applications Inc.(SSAI)
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
    Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Email: debra.e.kollonige@nasa.gov
    DATA DISCLAIMER:
    The data on this website are subject to revision and reprocessing. Check dates of creation to download the most current version. Contact the station principal investigator(s) for questions concerning data techniques and quality.

    CITATION - If you use WALLOPS data please cite the following article:
    • Witte, J. C., Thompson, A. M.,Schmidlin, F. J., Northam, E. T., Wolff,K. R., & Brothers, G. B. (2019). The NASA Wallops Flight Facility digital ozonesonde record: Reprocessing, uncertainties, and dual launches. Journal of Geophysical Research:Atmospheres, 124, 3565–3582. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD030098.

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