Medium Frequency (MF) Radar at Pontianak

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    Location: 0.003S, 109.367E
    Data period: Nov, 1995 --

Wind data (text format)

  The wind data in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (60-100 km) estimated from the observation data of the MF radar at Pontianak, Indonesia (0.003S, 109.36E). The data are stored in the text file named (year)(month)(day) _fca.txt. The text file includes year, month, day, time (universal time), height, zonal, meridional and vertical winds of the original data in the binary format (Full Correlation Analysis: FCA). The wind data corresponding to "bad" status code (other than 0) in the original data are replaced by missing value. The wind data from February 12, 2010 to June 5, 2012 are available now. In the future, the wind data for other periods will be released.
  For detailed information, please refer to the readme file (
English, Japanese) and access the metadata .

[Release Note]   EnglishJapanese

[Data (Daily)]   1999 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Wind data (netCDF format)

  The wind data in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (60-100 km) estimated from the observation data of the MF radar at Pontianak, Indonesia (0.003S, 109.36E). The data are stored in the NetCDF (Network Common Data From) named (year)(month)(day)_fca.nc. The netCDF file includes year, month, day, time (universal time), height, zonal, meridional and vertical winds of the original data in the binary format (Full Correlation Analysis: FCA). The wind data corresponding to "bad" status code (other than 0) in the original data are replaced by missing value. The wind data from February 12, 2010 to June 5, 2012 are available now. In the future, the wind data for other periods will be released.
  For detailed information, please refer to the readme file (
English, Japanese) and access the metadata .

[Release Note]   EnglishJapanese

[Data (Daily)]   1999 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Time-height plots of wind (PNG format)

  The time-height plots of three components of equatorial wind (zonal, meridional and vertical) in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere between 60 and 100 km estimated from the MF radar observations at Pontianak in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (0.00S, 109.36E). File names are composed of date and variable abbreviation: (year)(month).wnd.png (1-month plot) or (year)(month)(day).wnd.png (1-day plot). The variable abbreviation 'wnd' means wind velocity. The wind data corresponding to "bad" status code (other than 0) in the original binary data (Full Correlation Analysis: FCA) are replaced by missing value. The wind data for a period from February 12, 2010 to May 16, 2011 are available now. In the future, the wind data for other periods will be released.
  If you want to know more information of this data, please refer to the readme file (
English, Japanese), and access the metadata .

[Release Note]   EnglishJapanese

[Data (Daily)]   1999 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
[Data (Monthly)]   1999 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018