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