Journal
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume 35, Issue 9, Pages 591-607Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.12.002
Keywords
Cosmic rays; Extensive air showers; Atmospheric monitoring; Atmospheric models
Funding
- Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica
- Fundacion Antorchas
- Gobierno De La Provincia de Mendoza
- Municipalidad de Malargue
- NDM Holdings
- Valle Las Lenas
- Australian Research Council
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
- Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia (MCT), Brazil
- AVCR [AV0Z10100502, AV0Z10100522]
- GAAV [KJB300100801, KJB100100904]
- MSMT-CR, Czech Republic [LA08016, LC527, 1M06002, MSM0021620859]
- Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Conseil Regional Ile-de-France
- Departement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS)
- Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), France
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
- Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung
- Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR)
- Gran Sasso Center for Astroparticle Physics (CFA), Italy
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT), Mexico
- Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Netherlands
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland [1 P03 D 014 30, N N202 207238]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal
- Ministry for Higher Education, Science, and Technology
- Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia
- Comunidad de Madrid
- Consejeria de Educacion de la Comunidad de Castilla La Mancha
- FEDER
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion
- Consolider-Ingenio
- Generalitat Valenciana
- Junta de Andalucia
- Xunta de Galicia, Spain
- Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom
- Department of Energy [DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FR02-04ER41300]
- National Science Foundation [0969400]
- Grainger Foundation USA
- ALFA-EC/HELEN
- European Union [MEIF-CT-2005-025057, PIEF-GA-2008-220240]
- UNESCO
- STFC [ST/J000507/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J000507/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1068210, 1068696] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [969400] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Atmospheric conditions at the site of a cosmic ray observatory must be known for reconstructing observed extensive air showers. The Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) is a global atmospheric model predicated on meteorological measurements and numerical weather predictions. GDAS provides altitude-dependent profiles of the main state variables of the atmosphere like temperature, pressure, and humidity. The original data and their application to the air shower reconstruction of the Pierre Auger Observatory are described. By comparisons with radiosonde and weather station measurements obtained on-site in Malargue and averaged monthly models, the utility of the GDAS data is shown. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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