Fire Data Sources

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/

METAR, the international standard code format for hourly surface weather observations, data are available at http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml

NOAA NCDC land based data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/land.html

Vertical profiles of atmospheric properties

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

NOAA Radiosonde Network

NOAA NCDC Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/igra/index.php

Three-dimensional Weather Data

The NOAA National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS) http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/