Difference between revisions of "Fire Data Sources"

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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).

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 National Climate Data Center land based data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/land.html

Vertical profiles of atmospheric properties

Atmospheric profiler data http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/profiler/ (not working currently)

NOAA National Climate Data Center 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/

NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction model products ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/

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 Atmospheric soundings  http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
-NOAA Radiosonde Network
+Atmospheric profiler data  http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/profiler/  (not working currently)
 NOAA National Climate Data Center Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive  http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/igra/index.php
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 The NOAA National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS) http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/
+NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction model products   ftp://ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/