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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

An Overview of the Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)

Abstract:

MADIS provides ingest, integration, automated quality control (QC), and distribution support for both NOAA and non-NOAA observations. Observations currently supported by MADIS include Meteorological Aviation Reports (METARs), Surface Aviation Observations (SAOs), Surface maritime reports (including Buoy, Ship, and Coastal-Marine Automated Network [C-MAN]), Modernized NWS Cooperative Observer (COOP-M) Program, Surface Mesonets (including State DOT Road Weather Information Systems), Radiosondes, NOAA Profiler Network (NPN), Cooperating Agency Profiler (CAP), Automated aircraft reports and profiles (including MDCRS, ACARS*, AMDAR*, and TAMDAR, observations), Microwave Radiometers, GOES 3-h operational winds, and GOES 1-h experimental winds. MADIS ingests these data files, combines the observations from non-NOAA data providers, and integrates them with NOAA datasets by encoding all of the data into a uniform format and converting all of the observations to standard observation units and time stamps.

Source(s):

NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL)

http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/MADIS_Overview/MADIS_NewFinal_NP_8_20_04.pdf

Date: 2004

Author:

Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL)

Keywords:


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