Berlin Stratospheric Data Series

General Info

Title:	Berlin Stratospheric Data Series
Type:	Data Entity
Sub-Type:	Measurement
Abbreviation:	berlin
Publication State:	published
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URI:	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dataent_berlin

Summary
A brief description of the data.

This is a copy of The Berlin Stratospheric Data Series provided to the BADC by K. Labitzke and her collaborators (2002) as a CD from the Meteorological Institute, Free University Berlin. This data set contains temperature and geopotential height data on the 100, 50, 30, 10 mb pressure surfaces produced at the Meteorological Institute, Free University of Berlin, from radiosonde data and rocket observations. This data series also contains summer, winter and annual trends and variability of the data, climatological monthly mean temperature and geopotential height at 30 mb, and intercomparisons with other data series. There are also sections on the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and the global signal of the 11-year sunspot cycle in the stratosphere.

Content
The actual data being described by this document. NB, in the case of data granules, this content may just be a reference to an ingested CSML or CDML file.

Introduction

The Berlin stratospheric data series contains temperature and geopotential height data on the 100, 50, 30, 10 mb pressure surfaces produced at the Meteorological Institute, Free University of Berlin, from radiosonde data and rocket observations. The data covers the northern hemisphere during the years 1957 to 2001 and is available on both a 10° x 10° and 5° x 5° grid.

This data series is fully documented and contains remarks on summer, winter and annual trends and variability of the data, climatological monthly mean temperature and geopotential height at 30 mb, and intercomparisons with other data series. There are also sections on the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and the global signal of the 11-year sunspot cycle in the stratosphere.

Data Access

The Berlin Stratospheric Data are public, but please cite the creators of the dataset as given below.

"K. Labitzke and Collaborators, 2002: The Berlin Stratospheric Data Series, CD from the Meteorological Institute, Free University Berlin."

Both the data and the software to read the data have been transferred from the original CD provided by the Meteorological Institute of the Berlin Free University onto the Berlin Stratospheric Data Series archive at the BADC, from which they are readily downloadable. The archive also contains the documentation in HTML and PDF formats, and the individual figures inserted in the documentation, as GIF files.

Data availability and file format

Prior to 1973, the Berlin analysis charts were sampled onto regular gridpoints manually. Therefore, all data prior to this year are available in a 10 to 10 degree horizontal resolution, and cover the northern hemisphere northward of 10 degree north only. At 80N, values are only sampled in a 20 degree longitudinal resolution. Later, the interpolation onto gridpoints was done by a computer, allowing for a horizontal regular resolution of 5 to 5 degrees. In addition, the analysis was extended to the equator. To keep compatibility to the earlier data format, the 10 to 10 degree format are still maintained; however, it is now just a subset of the the higher resolution data.

Please note the following points:

Geopotential heights are stored in gpm, temperatures in degree Celsius.
Each monthly mean or daily field is stored in an individual file.
All fields cover the northern hemisphere only.

The data are held in ASCII files. The README file indicates how the data are formatted within the different types of files within the archive.

Documentation and Links to further information and references

A full list of the contents of this dataset including scientific and technical information is available here.

This contains further links to each individual section and to the data. Some of these documents are also available as PDF files.

Further information is available from the followign two institutions:

Citation

Date of citation

Who to contact

If you would like to know more about the Berlin stratospheric data series or require a copy of the CD please contact Prof. Karin Labitzke at the Meteorological Institute, Free University Berlin. For general queries regarding these pages or browsing the data, contact the BADC support line.

Lineage
Summary of the origins of the dataset, e.g.: "Dataset produced from NASA MODIS instrument on Terra and collected at the University of York's groundstation 1999-2003 and a copy provided to NEODC in June 2007".

This is a copy of The Berlin Stratospheric Data Series provided to the BADC by K. Labitzke and her collaborators (2002) as a CD from the Meteorological Institute, Free University Berlin.

Quality Statement
Description of the relative quality of the dataset.

not available at this time.

Author
The principal author of the actual underlying data. Only one author can be specified per atom; if there are multiple authors, these should be specified as 'contributors'. NB, an atom MUST have an author specified.

Name	email
K. Labitzke (Meteorological Institute, Free University Berlin)

Online References
Online references with a specific relationship to the data being described here. NB, if links are supplied they must be valid and include the transport protocol - e.g. 'http://blah.co.uk'. Also, note, three online references can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Relation	Title
Download	Berlin Stratospheric Data Directory
Logo	Logo

Parent Data Entity
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No data specified at present

Sub Data Entities
Lists all entities which have the current entity as their parent.

None

Associated Deployments

Parameters - summary

GEOPOTENTIALHEIGHT	ALTITUDE	ATMOSPHERE	EARTH SCIENCE
NULL	AIRTEMPERATURE	ATMOSPHERICTEMPERATURE

Parameters - details
Parameters to describe the data - with vocab URL and term IDs for further classification. Note, three parameters can be added at once; after these are added a further three may be specified - and so on.

Label	Vocab Term URL	Vocab Term ID
GEOPOTENTIALHEIGHT	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ALTITUDE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL
ATMOSPHERE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P131	NULL
EARTH SCIENCE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P111	GCAT0001
NULL	general_units	0
AIRTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/null	NULL
ATMOSPHERICTEMPERATURE	http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141	NULL

Data Coverage
Summary of the temporal and spatial data coverage for the data.

Spatial coverage
Max Y: 90.0
Min X: -180.0	Max X 180.0
Min Y 10.0

Temporal coverage
Start Date:	1957-07-01
End Date:	2001-06-30

Spatial resolution

No spatial resoultion information available.

Vertical extent

No vertical extent information available.

Responsible Parties
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Role	Name	URI
Data Curator	badc.nerc.ac.uk	http://badc.nerc.ac.uk

Other Info
Other miscellaneous information. Note, update frequency relates to the update frequency of the underlying data, not the metadata.

Dataset language

English

Update frequency

notPlanned

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