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 National Climate Data Center 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

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/