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Meteorological Data Documents and References
References
- Meteorological and
Geoastrophysical Abstracts
- Search the literature on meteorology, climatology, hydrology,
and related sciences
Documents
- NOAAPORT
User's Page
- Useful document on NOAAPORT, references ICDs (interface control
documents) in rich-text form for the code forms and formats. Has
links to sample products of every type. format for
-
WDTB
- Warning Decision Training Branch, includes links to NEXRAD info
- EMC homepage
- Descriptions of NCEP models
- BUFR
Guide
- 8 files, in Postscript, unfortunately.
- Publications
available from the Office of the Federal Coordinator for
Meteorology
- Online pubs include guide to BUFR and Federal Meteorological
Handbooks
- A
Guide to GRIB
- HTML version with tables, by Wolfgang Kouker
- FM92-XII GRIB
- WMO document for GRIB2, for which a reference decoder is available
- Stackpole's
GRIB Edition 1 document
- 6 Postscript files
- A
Guide to GRIB (Edition 1)
- In text form.
- Federal
Meteorological Handbook No. 1
- Guide to SAO's, in ASCII (Word Perfect also
available).
- WMO
Publications
- List of available WMO manuals and references.
-
Draft FTP Server Directory and File Naming Standards
- Proposed standard for names of meteorological data files on FTP
servers.
WMO Headers
- Bulletin
headers catalog
- WMO headers catalog that includes the Code used for each header
and remarks (e.g. plain language, synoptic, spl, suprep, amcli,
vnorm, ...)
- WMO message
structure
- a paraphrased version of the WMO standard for message
structure, including use of the BBB
indicator
- WMO Abbreviated
Heading Decoder
- Decodes TTAAii part of WMO headers
- Vol 386 Table
B1
- Table for what "TT" means in the TTAAii WMO
headers
- NWS
Meteorological Code & WMO Heading Activities
- Tracks changes in codes and headings. Ultimately will point to
NCEP Manual 388.
- NOAAPORT
header structure
- Describes two-line header, first line of which is WMO
abbreviated header. References WMO publications.
- WMO Headers for WAFS
Thinned Grids and RUC model
grids
- List of WMO headers for various parameters and levels
Data Streams and Products
- NWS Current
Weather Data
- Links to current observations, analysis and forecast products,
and FTP server for data and products
- National
Weather Service Communications and Codes Information
- Links to lots of info including anonymous FTP access to various
products
- NOAAPORT
- User's Guide and What's New with NOAAPORT, includes
data stream and product information
- directory for
AWIPS product matrices
- Includes tables giving products, levels and forecast times for
each HRS model run, and totals for all model runs.
- WMO Observing Stations
- Flat file table of global observing stations (06 August 2001
Edition), linked from Data for WMO
Publications with record
layout description. A current version, updated weekly, is available
in the same directory.
- Meteorological
Station Information Lookup
- NWS station database, very complete
- AWS
table of stations
- NCAR's copy of AWS master station catalog, updated every
few months
- Overview
of the NMC Production Suite
- Not kept up-to-date, unfortunately.
- NWS Family of
Services
- Up-to-date info on volume of data for each service, details of
content on DDS, PPS, IDS, HDS, DIFAX, and AGS.
Status and Updates
- Notifications
- Recent notifications from NWS on changes in products of
services
- NWS
Systems Operations Center Change Notices
- Changes in product identification, availability, and/or
routing
- State
zone maps
- ... and state county warning areas as GIF maps and ASCII GIS
files in ".bna format".
- NWS
Modernization and Restructuring
- Status of NWS modernization, including
- Weekly
log of "Modification to the NWS Production Job
Suite"
- Crisis items and programming notes for NCEP (formerly NMC)
model runs.
-
COM.STATFILE documentation
- Describes NMC's FTP'able COM data sets, the status file
that encodes their status, how they are accessed and transmitted,
and the format of the status entries.
-
What's new on NIC server
- Descriptions of updates to codes such as GRIB and BUFR
decoders, WAFS thickener, and documentation.
- WMO code
changes
- GRIB and BUFR documents and amendments; buoy, bathy, METAR,
RECCO documents and code revisions.
Decoders
- MEL Tools
- Software including encoders/decoders, mapping software,
metadata tools, and visualization tools for GRIB, BUFR, SEDRIS.
Includes link to comprehensive GRIB documentation.
- wgrib
- a C program to manipulate, inventory and decode GRIB files
- GRIB and
BUFR decoders
- NMC's collection of Fortran decoders and encoders for GRIB
and BUFR
- GRIB
library
- NCAR's collection of GRIB decoders
- More GRIB and BUFR
decoders
- For 11 types of computers
- I,J to
and from lat/lon coordinates
- FORTRAN codes that convert the I and J (Cartesian) coordinates
to latitude and longitude for various map projections in use at
NCEP (formerly NMC), where the grids are defined using the GRIB
conventions. The directory also contains the codes that go the
other way, i.e., for a given lat/lon they will return the I and J
(floating, fractional) grid coordinates.
- METAR
decoder
- C decoder for METAR data, from NWS.
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