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A 2009 update on the NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth and L. A. Benjamin
The NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) is a
NOAA Research system, developed at the Earth System Research
Laboratory (ESRL), that serves the meteorological community by
supporting observation collection integration, quality control, and
distribution of thousands of NOAA and non-NOAA observations, including
over 40,000 surface mesonet stations from local, state, and federal
agencies, and private networks, as well as upper-air datasets
including multi-agency wind profiler and automated, commercial
aircraft observations. The mesonet database includes Road Weather
Information System observations from state Departments of
Transportation, as well as real-time observations from the Remote
Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) network, the Cooperative Mesonets in
the Western U.S. (MesoWest) network, the WeatherBug and UrbaNet
networks operated by AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc., the Citizen
Weather Observing Program (CWOP) network, and others, many of which
provide dense observations in urban areas. MADIS receives these
observations in different formats, units, and time stamps, and
provides them in a single uniform database. Additionally, MADIS
supplies data providers with quality control and station monitoring
information to assist in their maintenance activities and to enhance
and promote the mutual benefits of public/private data sharing.
Organizations receiving MADIS data feeds include National Weather
Service (NWS) forecast offices, the NWS National Centers for
Environmental Prediction, the National Center for Atmospheric
Research, and many major universities and commercial weather
businesses.
In 2007, the NOAA Research Council and NOAA Transition Board rated
MADIS as one of NOAA's highest priority research-to-operations
transition projects. Overall plans for the transition include the
implementation of MADIS real-time capabilities at the NWS and the
transfer of existing MADIS saved datasets and future archive
responsibilities to the NESDIS National Climatic Data Center. The NWS
transition approach will consist of an integrated NWS
Telecommunications (TOC) and National Centers for Environmental
Prediction Central Operations (NCO) distributed system. ESRL will
remain as the primary MADIS Research and Development organization, and
will host a research-to-operations test environment facility within
the ESRL/GSD Central Facility.
This poster will provide a status update on the existing MADIS system,
a general overview of MADIS transition plans, and will also cover
plans for upgrades to MADIS datasets and services. Companion papers,
by D. Helms et al. and M.F. Barth et al., will provide additional
information on the MADIS transition to NOAA operations and on urban
observations available from the MADIS database.
Note - Leon A. Benjamin is also affiliated with Systems Research Group, Inc.
Poster Session 2, IIPS Poster Session II
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Hall 5
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