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* Description at http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/nam/ | * Description at http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/nam/ | ||
* Resolution: 3h, Grid 218 12km, Grid 227 5km | * Resolution: 3h, Grid 218 12km, Grid 227 5km | ||
| − | * Data access: http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/nam/prod last moth or so (as of | + | * Data access: http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/nam/prod last moth or so (as of 2016-9-5, from 2016-8-8 to present) |
| + | * How to use with WRF: http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/DATA/NAM/ | ||
===NARR - NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis=== | ===NARR - NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis=== | ||
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* NOMADS | * NOMADS | ||
** Description at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.narr.html and ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/NARR/README but some is [http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/guide/index.php?name=methods#onlineoffline offline] | ** Description at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.narr.html and ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/NARR/README but some is [http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/guide/index.php?name=methods#onlineoffline offline] | ||
| − | ** [http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/narr/warning.html Issues page]: Converting from GRIB to {{wp2|NetCDF|NetCDF4}} ({{wp2|HDF|HDF5}}) as of 2016/02/11 | + | ** [http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/narr/warning.html Issues page]: Converting from GRIB to {{wp2|NetCDF|NetCDF4}} ({{wp2|HDF|HDF5}}) as of 2016/02/11. The NetCDF data are at ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/NARR/Dailies/pressure |
** Data at http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data/narr as of 2016-09-05, 1979-01 to 2014-10, also ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/NARR but [http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data/narr/Note-DoNotUseDirectoryListsToDetermineAvailability.txt directory list cannot be used to determine availablity] | ** Data at http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data/narr as of 2016-09-05, 1979-01 to 2014-10, also ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/NARR but [http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data/narr/Note-DoNotUseDirectoryListsToDetermineAvailability.txt directory list cannot be used to determine availablity] | ||
* NCAR | * NCAR | ||
Latest revision as of 22:50, 8 September 2016
3D Gridded Data
All are GRIB unless noted otherwise.
- 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/
HRRR - NOAA High-Resolution Rapid Refresh
- Used in wrfxpy
- Description at http://ruc.noaa.gov/hrrr/ http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/hrrr/
- Resolution 1h 3km
- Data access:
NAM - North American Model
- used in wrfxpy
- Description at http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/nam/
- Resolution: 3h, Grid 218 12km, Grid 227 5km
- Data access: http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/nam/prod last moth or so (as of 2016-9-5, from 2016-8-8 to present)
- How to use with WRF: http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/DATA/NAM/
NARR - NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis
- Used in wrfxpy
- 3h, 32km resolution
- NOMADS
- Description at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.narr.html and ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/NARR/README but some is offline
- Issues page: Converting from GRIB to NetCDF4 (HDF5) as of 2016/02/11. The NetCDF data are at ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/NARR/Dailies/pressure
- Data at http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data/narr as of 2016-09-05, 1979-01 to 2014-10, also ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/NARR but directory list cannot be used to determine availablity
- NCAR
- Description http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds608.0
- As of 2016-09-05, from 1979-01-01 to 2016-08-01
- http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds608.0/#!access http tar, subsetting service, GLOBUS Ftp, direct file access on Glade
Surface Gridded Data
RTMA - NCEP Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis
- Used in wrfxpy
- Description: http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/rtma
- several 2D fields at fixed height
- 1h, 2.5km resolution
- Data access: http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/rtma/prod/
Station 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 Also supports layers with fire info.
- 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 https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data
Vertical Profiles
- 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