Fire Data Sources

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Data Sources


Many sources of weather, terrain, and fuel data for initialization, assimilation, and verification are freely available through public sites. Fire igntion tim/location data and imagery of fire extent at later times for specific incidents is still generally in the form of custom datasets where research or suppression teams were available to collect it.


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/


10-hr Dead Fuel Moisture


Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) data http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/roman/


Live Fuel Moisture


Custom


Fire Ignition Time and Location Data


Custom


Fire Location and Intensity Data


Custom