gov.noaa.ncdc:C00145 eng; USA utf8 dataset DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce ISO 19115 Metadata Contact 1-828-271-4800 1-828-271-4876 151 Patton Avenue Veach-Baley Federal Building, Room 468 Asheville NC 28801-5001 USA ncei.orders@noaa.gov https://www.ncei.noaa.gov HTTPS Web Browser NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. information 8:00 - 6:00 Eastern pointOfContact 2026-08-24T18:09:26 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) Summary of Winds Aloft - WBAN 120 NERMS - Summary of Winds Aloft - WBAN 120 publication gov.noaa.ncdc:C00145 NCEI Physical Archive Collection: WB-120 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information author NOAA National Weather Service originator United States Weather Bureau originator NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information publisher documentDigital Summary of Winds Aloft - WBAN 120 is a historical manuscript set archived at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).Form WBAN-22 is very similar and also included in this collection. These forms consist of wind direction and wind speed at specified heights above the surface obtained from pibals and rawinsondes. These are listed by station, year, month, day, and by hour of observation. Scheduled hours of observations changed on June 1, 1957 from 03, 09, 15 and 21 Greenwich Mean Time to 00, 06, 12 and 18 GMT. Provisions exist on these forms for listing wind direction and speed at heights up to 42,000 meters. The first page contains data in 12 five-column fields from the surface through 6,000 meters. Page 2 contains data from 7,000 through 18,000 meters, when available, etc. Heights have varied over the years and, in general, wind observations reached greater heights in the early 1960's than in the 1940's or 1950's. High level wind data (above 50,000 meters) are available in published and summarized forms for selected stations in the rocketsonde network. These archived forms can be found in Rocketsonde Observations, DSI-5850 (C00074). The major parameters that make up this file are wind direction (16 point and calm) versus wind speed (m/s, kts, mph) group tabulations. Also included are monthly or seasonal; 1. Standard deviation of east components, 2. Standard deviation of north components, 3. Standard vector deviation of wind velocity, 4. Correlation coefficient of north and east components, 5. Average wind speed, 6. Scalar wind speed, 7. Ratio of standard deviations, 8. Standard deviation of wind components along the major axis of the distribution, 9. Standard deviation of wind components perpendicular to the major axis of the distribution, 10. Angle of rotation of the major axis of the wind distribution counter- clockwise from East-West direction, 11. Standard deviation of wind speeds. 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