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Many sources of weather data for initialization, assimilation, and verification are freely available through public sites.
Many sources of weather data for initialization, assimilation, and verification are freely available through public sites.


Surface weather data
Surface weather data  


MADIS
The Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) http://madis.noaa.gov/  compiles surface weather data from many networks (http://madis.noaa.gov/network_info.html).


Mesowest
Mesowest http://mesowest.utah.edu/index.html


Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) data    http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/roman/
Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) data    http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/roman/
Vertical profiles of atmospheric properties
Atmospheric soundings  http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

Revision as of 22:46, 9 July 2010

Data Sources

Many sources of weather data for initialization, assimilation, and verification are freely available through public sites.

Surface weather data

The Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) http://madis.noaa.gov/ compiles surface weather data from many networks (http://madis.noaa.gov/network_info.html).

Mesowest http://mesowest.utah.edu/index.html

Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) data http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/roman/

Vertical profiles of atmospheric properties

Atmospheric soundings http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html