| acars |
Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System observations |
| acarssounding |
Vertical profiles derived from ACARS data |
| airep |
Automated Aircraft Reports |
| airmet |
“Airmen’s Meteorological Information”: aviation weather advisories for potentially hazardous, but non-severe weather |
| arealffgGenerator |
Creates a mosaic of gridded ffg fields generated by RFCs for a WFO's area |
| arealQpeGen |
Creates a mosaic of gridded QPE for a WFO's area |
| atcf |
Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast |
| aww |
Airport Weather Warning |
| binlightning |
Lightning data from the National Lightning Detection Network |
| bufrascat |
Advanced Scatterometer wind data |
| bufrhdw |
GOES High Density Winds |
| bufrmos |
Model Output Statistics |
| bufrmthdw |
MTSAT (Japanese Multi-Functional Transport Satellite) High Density Winds |
| bufrncwf |
National Convective Weather Forecast for Aviation |
| bufrobs |
BUFR formatted surface and sea obs |
| bufrquikscat |
NASA QuikSCAT (Quick Scatterometer) satellite carrying the SeaWinds scatterometer (OOS 2009) |
| bufrsigwx |
Aviation Significant Weather |
| bufrssmi |
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager data from DMSP (Defesne Meteorological Satellite Program) satellites |
| bufrua |
Upper air radiosonde data |
| ccfp |
Aviation Collaborative Convective Forecast Product |
| climate-hmdb |
Climate text products |
| convectprob |
NOAA/CIMSS Prob Severe Model |
| convsigmet |
Aviation Significant Meteorological Information for convective weather |
| crimss |
NPP/NPOESS CrIMSS (Cross Track Infrared and Microwave Sounding Suite) soundings |
| cwa |
Aviation Center Weather Advisory, issued by CWSUs (Center Weather Service Units) |
| cwat |
County Warning Area Threat produced by SCAN. CWAT was formerly called SCAN Convective Threat Index (SCTI). Raw data inputs include radar, cloud-to-ground lightning from the NLDN, and a few RUC130 fields. Radar data [with WSR-88D product mnemonics and numbers] needed for CWAT are 1 km Composite Reflectivity [CZ, 37]; 4 km Vertically Integrated Liquid [VIL, 57]; Storm Track [STI, 58]; Mesocyclone Detections [MD, 141]; and Tornadic Vortex Signatures [TVS, 61]. RUC130 fields include 700 mb Wind, Freezing Level, 1000-500 mb Thickness and 500 mb Wind as specified in the SCANRunSiteConfig.xml file.) |
| dmw |
GOES-R Derived Motion Winds |
| ffg |
Flash flood guidance metadata (countybased ffg from RFCs) |
| ffmp |
Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction data. Raw data inputs: radar, gridded flash flood guidance from River Forecast Centers, highresolution precipitation estimates [HPE] and nowcasts [HPN], QPF from SCAN and gage data from the IHFS [Integrated Hydrologic Forecast System] database. Radar data [with WSR-88D product mnemonics and numbers] needed for FFMP are Digital Hybrid Reflectivity [DHR, 32] and Digital Precipitation Rate [DPR, 176]. The raw GRIB files containing RFC Flash Flood Guidance are identified in the tables in Part 2 of this document as NWS_151 or FFG-XXX, where XXX is an RFC identifier such as TUA, KRF, or ALR. |
| fog |
Fog Monitor. Raw data inputs: METAR, Mesonet, maritime, buoys, MAROBs, and satellite [visible, 3.9 µm, and 10.7 µm]) |
| freezingLevel |
MPE Rapid Refresh Freezing Level scheduled process (MpeRUCFreezingLevel) |
| fssobs |
Observations for the Fog monitor, SNOW, and SAFESEAS. Raw data inputs: METAR, Mesonet, maritime, buoys, MAROBs. |
| gaff |
Generate Areal Flash Flood Guidance |
| geomag |
NCEP SWPC Geomagnetic Data |
| gfe |
Graphical Forecast Editor grids |
| ghcd |
NCEP Generic High Cadence Data |
| goesr |
Plugins to decode and display GOES-R products |
| goessounding |
GOES Satellite Soundings |
| gpd |
NCEP Generic Point Data |
| grid |
Binary gridded data grib1/grib2 |
| idft |
Ice Drift Forecasts |
| intlsigmet |
International Significant Meteorological Information for Aviation |
| ldad |
Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination |
| ldadhydro |
Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination Hydro data files |
| ldadmanual |
Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination Manual Ingest |
| ldadmesonet |
Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination Mesonet data files |
| ldadprofiler |
Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination Profiler data files |
| lma |
Lightning Mapping Array |
| loctables |
Location Tables Ingest |
| lsr |
Local Storm Reports |
| madis |
Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System |
| manualIngest |
Manual data ingest plugin |
| mcidas |
NCEP decoder for McIDAS AREA files |
| metartohmdb |
Adds metar records to the Verification and Climate database |
| modelsounding |
Individual grid point soundings from the GFS and NAM models |
| modis |
NASA Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| mosaic |
NCEP Radar mosaic data files |
| mping |
mPING Crowdsourced weather reports (http://mping.nssl.noaa.gov/) |
| ncpafm |
NCEP Point/Area Forecast Matrices data |
| ncscat |
NCEP ASCAT/Quikscat records |
| nctaf |
NCEP Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts |
| nctext |
NCEP Text decoders |
| ncuair |
NCEP Upper Air decoder |
| ndm |
National Dataset Maintenance ingester |
| nonconvsigmet |
Aviation Significant Meteorological Information for non-convective weather |
| ntrans |
NCCEP Ntrans Metafiles |
| nucaps |
Soundings from NOAA Unique CrIS/ATMS Processing System from NPP (National Polar-Orbiting Partnership) Satellites |
| obs |
Surface observations from METARs |
| pgen |
NCEP NAWIPS PGEN decoder |
| pirep |
Pilot Reports |
| poessounding |
Polar Operational Environmental Satellite soundings |
| preciprate |
Precipitation Rate from SCAN. Raw data input: radar data [with WSR-88D product mnemonic and number] needed for preciprate are Digital Hybrid Reflectivity [DHR, 32]) |
| profiler |
Wind Profiler data |
| q2FileProcessor |
Q2 Verification System gzipped files |
| qc |
QC mesonet data |
| qpf |
Quantitative Precipitation Forecast from SCAN (raw data inputs: radar and some RUC130 fields. Radar data [with WSR-88D product mnemonics and numbers] needed for SCAN’s QPF are 0.5 degree Base Reflectivity [Z, 19], 4 km Vertically Integrated Liquid [VIL, 57], and Storm Track [STI, 58]. The RUC130 field needed is 700 mb Wind, as defined in the SCANRunSiteConfig.xml file.) |
| radar |
WSR-88D and TDWR data |
| redbook |
“Redbook” graphics |
| regionalsat |
Decoder implementation for netcdf3 files generated by the Alaska Region and GOES-R Proving Ground |
| satellite-gini |
GINI-formatted satellite imagery (GOES, POES, VIIRS, FNEXRAD) |
| satellite-mcidas |
McIDAS area files (Raytheon/D2D-developed) |
| satpre |
Satellite-estimated Pecipiration (hydroApps) |
| scan |
SCAN (System for Convection Analysis and Nowcasting) (Inputs for the SCAN Table include radar, cloud-toground lightning from the NLDN, fields from RUC130, and CWAT. Specific radar products [with WSR-88D product mnemonics and numbers] are: 1 km Composite Reflectivity [CZ, 37]; 0.5 degree Base Reflectivity [Z, 19]; 4 km Vertically Integrated Liquid [VIL, 57]; Storm Track [STI, 58]; Mesocyclone Detections [MD, 141]; and Tornadic Vortex Signature [TVS, 61]. The SCAN Digital Mesocyclone Detection Table uses the WSR-88D DMD product [number 149]. RUC130 fields used for SCAN include CAPE, 0-3 km Storm Relative Helicity, 700 mb Wind, Freezing Level, 1000-500 mb Thickness, and 500 mb Wind.) |
| sfcobs |
Surface observations other than METAR format including buoys |
| sgwh |
NCEP BUFR Significant Wave Height data - SGWH (Jason-1), SGWHA (Altika), SGWHC (CryoSat), SGWHE (Envisat), SGWHG (GFO), or SGWH2 (Jason-2) |
| shef |
Standard Hydrometeorological Exchange Format data. |
| solarimage |
NCEP SWPC Solar imagery |
| ssha |
NCEP Sea Surface Height Anomaly BUFR data |
| stormtrack |
NCEP StormTrack Plug-In (Automatic Tropical Cyclone Forecast & Ensemble cyclones) |
| svrwx |
SPC Local Storm Report Summaries |
| taf |
Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts |
| tcg |
Tropical Cyclone Guidance |
| tcm |
Tropical Cyclone Forecast/Advisory |
| tcs |
Tropical Cyclone Forecast/Advisory |
| text |
Various Text Products |
| textlightning |
Text lightning data |
| vaa |
Volcanic ash advisories |
| viirs |
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite data |
| vil |
Cell-based Vertically Integrated Liquid from SCAN (System for Convection Analysis and Nowcasting) |
| warning |
Watches, Warnings, and Advisories |
| wcp |
SPC Convective Watches |
