Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA) - Monthly Means (Version Superseded)

**Please note, this dataset has been superseded
by a newer version (see below). Users should not use this version
except in rare cases (e.g., when reproducing previous studies that
used this version).** Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive is a digital data set archived at the former National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), now National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). This dataset contains monthly means of geopotential height, temperature, zonal wind, and meridional wind derived from the Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA). IGRA consists of radiosonde and pilot balloon observations at over 1500 globally distributed stations, and monthly means are available for the surface and mandatory levels at many of these stations. The period of record varies from station to station, with many extending from 1970 to 2016. Monthly means are computed separately for the nominal times of 0000 and 1200 UTC, considering data within two hours of each nominal time. A mean is provided, along with the number of values used to calculate it, whenever there are at least 10 values for a particular station, month, nominal time, and level.