A mesoscale upper-air study, the Limestone Mountain Experiment (LIMEX-85) was carried out over the foothills and mountains of southwestern Alberta during July, 1985. The objectives of the field experiment were focused on understanding mesoscale convective processes, orographic effects, and interactions with synoptic processes, with particular emphasis on severe storm forecasting applications.

The archive data includes soundings every two hours from nine upper-air sites with an average spacing of 50 km, continuous SODAR profiles, research aircraft soundings at 20-km intervals, surface data from eight automated systems, and an extensive cloud photo set. The compressed upper air data and accompanying analysis software are currently archived on 2 high density 1.44 MB diskettes. Further details can be found in Strong (1989).

References:

Strong, G.S., 1989: LIMEX-85: 1. Processing of data sets from an Alberta Mesoscale Upper-air Experiment. Climatological Bulletin, 23, 98-118.

Diskettes

Diskette #1 contains the LIMEX-85 upper air data in UA1 (or hhA) form; and the PKZIP/PKunZIP utilities to compress/uncompress these data.

Diskette #2 contains the executable tasks of the MESOSOFT analysis facility (including "help" documents) since 95-Feb-15.

Users may also contact:

Dr. Geoff Strong
Climate Processes and Observations Division
Atmospheric Environment Service
National Hydrology Research Centre
11 Innovation Blvd.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA
S7N 3H5

ph:  306-975-5809
FAX: 306-975-6516
e-mail:strongg@nhrisv.nhrc.sk.doe.ca