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).
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