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/


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