Radiosonde measurements (King George Island), 2017 - 2023.

Radiosonde measurements were made over the Chilean Antarctic Research Station, Professor Julio Escudero, on King George Island. The research platform at Escudero is supported by the Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH).

There is one file per radiosounding, from 2017/01/12 – 2023/08/10 in text format. No measurements are included for 2020 or 2021 due to station closures.

File names have the form esc_sonde_v2_YYYYMMDDHH.txt, where esc stands for Escudero and v2 indicates version 2.

The file header is 5 lines long, with the last two lines giving the column labels and units: time (TimeUTC; hh:mm:ss), pressure (P; hPa), height (HeightMSL; m), temperature (Temp; DegC), relative humidity (RH; %), dewpoint temperature (Dewp; DegC), wind direction (Dir; Degrees), and wind speed (Speed; Knots).

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Additional Information

Author Penny Rowe
Maintainer Antarctic Meteorological Research and Data Center
Version 2025-04
Last Updated March 27, 2026, 18:13 (UTC)
Created April 8, 2025, 18:31 (UTC)
Citation Penny Rowe, Raul Cordero, Xun Zou, and Irina Gorodetskaya, 2025: Radiosonde measurements (King George Island), 2017 - 2023. AMRDC Data Repository, accessed YYYY-MM-DD, https://doi.org/10.48567/jqv8-r657.
Collection Begin Date 2017-01-12
Collection End Date 2023-08-10
DOI https://doi.org/10.48567/jqv8-r657
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Funding National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants 2127632, 2205398, and 2229392; Fondecyt grants 1161460 and 1231904
Location 62° 12.084S, 58° 57.732W
Principal Investigator(s) Penny Rowe, Raul Cordero, Xun Zou, and Irina Gorodetskaya