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Detailed Information on Data, Data Stream Products and Systems

Helpful tools to aid in your data discovery:

• Searchable nws-changes archives and how to subscribe to the nws-changes e-mail list.
• Terms and Acronyms

  NWS

  Information on products and observations provided by the National Weather Service.
  • Meteorological Products Processed at the NWS Telecommunications Gateway

  NCEP Models

  Specific information on models available from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.
  • NCEP Environmental Modeling
    • Numerical Model Descriptions-Environmental Modeling Center

  NWS Modernized Systems

  Data are used from several systems available from the National Weather Service.
  These links provide descriptions about the systems.
  • NOAAport Homepage and User's Guide
    • What's New
  • ASOS Locations
    • Automated Observing Site Map, FAA
  • NEXRAD (WSR-88D) Locations

  World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Header Resources

  The WMO is an organization of the United Nations which facilitates cooperation
  of meteorological observations, networking, standarization, research and training.
  • Federal Meteorological Handbook No. 1
  • Meteorological Code & WMO Heading Activities
  • WMO Index
  • Relationship Table for AFOS NNN and WMO T1T2
  • WMO Abbreviated Heading Tables (Manual No. 386)

  Internet Data Distribution

  IDD is a configuration based on the use of Unidata's LDM software to disseminate data.

  • Unidata's IDD

  Satellites/Receivers/Broadcasts

  • NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) AM-1 Instruments
  • GOES 3.9 micron Channel Tutorial, a tutorial developed by The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
  • NOAA's Satellite Active Archive
  • Office of Satellite Operations NOAA/NESDIS.

  Other Information

  • NOAA Real time operational data products from satellite services division
  • Marshall Space Flight Center Archives
  • NWS METAR/TAF Homepage (includes METAR Decoder Software Information, news and bulletins)
  • National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Online Data Access
  • National Climatic Data Center, Climatic Extremes & Weather Events-Maps, Tables, Reports
  • Standard Hydrometeorological Exchange Format (SHEF) Handbook No. 1
  • Resolution 40 - World Meteorological Organization's Policy on International Data Exchange
  • National Data Buoy Center

   

  This page was prepared by Linda Miller ,Don Murray, and Jeff Weber.

  Questions or comments can be sent to <support@unidata.ucar.edu>.

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