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Article: Upper air data tables.(Terminology)(Brief article)
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- Monthly Climatic Data for the World
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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HEIGHT: Mean height of pressure surfaces in gpm. Asterisk (*) indicates station elevation.
VECTOR WIND: Direction of mean vector wind in degrees, speed in mps. A wind speed value of 0 is a speed
STEADINESS: Ratio of mean vector wind speed to mean scalar wind speed.
OB: Observation time code; 1 = 0000 GMT, 2 = 1200 GMT, 3 = 0000 ...