# Presentation: 814821

## Introduction to MADIS at Forecast Systems Lab How data is received, stored, and made available

- Patty Miller and Mike Barth

- John Cunning

## Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)

- Goal

- To share FSL’s observation and observation-handling technology with the greater meteorological community.

- Function

- Ingest, quality control, and distribution  of environmental observations with software and documentation support.

- John Cunning

## MADIS

- Current Data Sets

- Upper Air Observations
- Radiosonde
- Automated Aircraft
- NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) Wind Profiler
- Multi-Agency Profiler
- Surface Observations
- Meteorological Aviation Reports (METARs)
- Surface Aviation Observations (SAOs)
- Maritime
- Mesonet

- John Cunning

## MADIS Multi-Agency Profiler Providers

_**Organization Description**_**                                                 **_**Provider Name**_**    **_**No. of Sites**_**  **_**Coverage**_

**NOAA Aeronomy Lab.**
**NOAA Air Resources Laboratory**
**Argonne National Lab. ABLE (Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiments)**
**Bay Area Air Quality Management District**
**Dugway Proving Grounds**
**Environment Canada (AEPRI)**
**Environment Canada (CARE)**
**Electronics Proving Ground (MET)**
**NOAA Environmental Technology Lab.**
**Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station**
**McGill University**
**Maryland Dept. of the Environment**
**Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, Air Assessment Branch**
**Argonne National Lab. ABLE/Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program**
**NCAR sponsored by the FAA**
**North Carolina Dept. of Environment/Natural Resources, Division of Air Quality**
**NOAA Profiler Network**
**Dept. of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School**
**Rutgers University and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection**
**South Coast Air Quality Management District**
**San Diego Air Pollution Control District**
**San Joaquin Valley APCD**
**Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District**
**Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission**
**University of Washington/NWS**
**Ventura County Air Pollution Control District**
**Virginia Department of Environmental Quality**
**White Sands Missile Range (MET BR)**
**Yuma Proving Ground**

**AL**
**ARL                                                                                                               **
**ANL-ABLE **
**BAAQMD **
**DPG**
**EC **
**EC-CARE**
**EPG **
**ETL **
**KSC-CCAFS **
**MCGILL **
**MDE **
**MDOEPAAB **
**NAL/ARM **
**NCAR/FAA **
**NCDE-DENR **
**NPN **
**NPS-DM **
**RU/NJDEP**
**SCQ **
**SDAPCD **
**SJV-APCD **
**SMAQMD **
**TNRCC **
**UW/NWS **
**VCAPCD **
**VDEQ **
**WSM**
**YPG**

**6**
**2**
**                                                                                                             ****2 **
**1 **
**2**
**1 **
**1**
**1 **
**13 **
**4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            **
**1 **
**1 **
**1**
**1 **
**3 **
**2 **
**2 **
**1 **
**1**
**3 **
**2 **
**1 **
**1 **
**2 **
**1 **
**1 **
**1**
**1**
**1**

**Pacific Ocean**
**Nevada**
**Kansas**
**California**
**Utah**
**Nova Scotia**
**Ontario**
**Arizona**
**CONUS**
**Florida**
**Quebec**
**Maryland**
**Massachusetts**
**Kansas**
**Alaska**
**North Carolina**
**Colorado**
**California**
**New Jersey**
**California**
**California**
**California**
**California**
**Texas**
**Washington**
**California**
**Virginia**
**New Mexico**
**Arizona**

**Total = 60**

- John Cunning

## Multi-Agency Profiler Locations

**Multi-Agency Profiler Locations**

- John Cunning

## MADIS Mesonet Providers

**   **_**Mesonet Description**_**                                                   **_**Provider Name**_**  **_**No. of Sites**_**      **_**Coverage**_

**U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds**
**Citizen Weather Observers Program**
**AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc.**
**Anything Weather Network**
**Florida Mesonet**
**Ft. Collins Utilities**
**Goodland WFO Miscellaneous**
**Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System**
**FSL Ground-Based GPS**
**Hydrometeorological Automated Data System**
**Iowa Department of Transportation**
**Iowa Environmental Mesonet**
**Boulder WFO Miscellaneous**
**Kansas Department of Transportation**
**Multi-Agency Profiler Surface Observations**
**Cooperative Mesonets in Western U.S.**
**Minnesota Department of Transportation**
**National Ocean Service Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System**
**National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program**
**Remote Automated Weather Stations**
**Colorado SchoolNet**
**Denver Urban Drainage & Flood Control Dist.**
**Weather for You**

**APG**
**APRSWXNET**
**AWS**
**AWX**
**FL - Meso**
**FTCOLLINS**
**GLDNWS**
**GoMOOS**
**GPSMET**
**HADS**
**IADOT**
**IEM**
**INTERNET**
**KSDOT**
**MAP**
**MesoWest**
**MNDOT**
**NOS – PORTS**
**NWS - COOP**
**RAWS**
**SCHLNET**
**UDFCD**
**WXforYou**

**5**
**1108**
**4503**
**65**
**34**
**5**
**13**
**9**
**266**
**54**
**50**
**59**
**9**
**41**
**17**
**1943**
**92**
**34**
**107**
**1586**
**61**
**19**
**361**

**Maryland**
**Global**
**U.S.**
**CONUS**
**Florida**
**Colorado**
**CO/KS/NE**
**Gulf of Maine**
**U.S.**
**New England**
**Iowa**
**Iowa**
**Colorado**
**Kansas**
**CONUS**
**West CONUS**
**Minnesota**
**CONUS**
**New England**
**U.S.**
**Colorado**
**Colorado**
**U.S.**

**Total = 10,441**

- John Cunning

## Mesonet Sites

**Mesonet Sites**

- John Cunning

## MADIS

- Quality Control Checks

- Surface
- validity, temporal consistency, internal consistency, spatial consistency
- Radiosonde
- validity, wind shear, super-adiabatic lapse rate, hydrostatic
- Automated Aircraft
- validity, internal consistency, temporal consistency, position consistency
- Profiler
- validity, bird contamination, time-height continuity checks

- John Cunning

## MADIS Output Data Files

- Format
- AWIPS netCDF
- Real-Time Distribution
- ftp or LDM
- On-Line Archive
- From July 1, 2001

- John Cunning

## MADIS Output Data Files

- Available via ftp or LDM – Compatible with:

- AWIPS (_A_dvanced _W_eather _I_nteractive _P_rocessing _S_ystem) and AWIPS-like Platforms
- LAPS (_L_ocal _A_nalysis and _P_rediction _S_ystem)
- COAMPS (_C_oupled _O_cean/_A_tmospheric _M_esoscale _P_rediction _S_ystem)
- WRF (_W_eather _R_esearch and _F_orecasting Model) 3DVAR
- MSAS (_M_APS _S_urface _A_nalysis _S_ystem)
- NCEP (_N_ational _C_enter for _E_nvironmental _P_rediction) Data Assimilation

- John Cunning

## MADIS Software Support

**MADIS Software Support**

- Application Program Interface (API) to read the netCDF observation and QC information
- User documentation and utility programs

- John Cunning

## MADIS

- API Advantages

- Invisible data formats and file structures
- Multiple retrieval of similar observations
- Variable transformation
- Time windowing
- Domain specification
- Sounding generation
- QC information
- Utility routines
- Portability

- John Cunning

## MADIS Supported Computers

**MADIS Supported Computers**

**Hewlett**
**Packard**
**IBM Power,**
**Power 2,**
**PowerPC**
**Sun**
**Linux**
**Silicon**
**Graphics**
**PC running**
**Windows**

**HP-UX, 10.20**
**AIX, 4.3.3**
**SunOS, 5.6**
**Red Hat, 6.2**
**IRIX/IRIX64, 6.5**
**Windows 9x/**
**Me/2000/NT**

**HP-9000/K250, K450, D270**
**9076-270**
**Ultra-Enterprise**
**Dell Precision 210, Pentium III 500 Mhz**
**Origin 200, Indigo 2**
**Pentium II, 450 Mhz, Windows NT4.0/98**

**f77, f90**
**xlf, xlf90**
**f77**
**g77, pgf90**
**f77**
**g77**

**Should work on any HP PA-RISC 1.1 or 2.0 platform**
**Should work on any IBM POWER, POWER2, or POWERPC platform**
**Should work on any SPARC platform**
**Should work on any Linux platform**
**Should work on any n32 platform**
**Should work on any Windows 9x/Me/ 2000/NT platform**

- John Cunning

## MADIS Distribution

- Universities and research organizations
- Private companies
- Others

**MADIS Distribution**

- Provides easy distribution of observation and QC information to:

- FSL only (no distribution)
- Distribution to NOAA
- Distribution to government, research, and education organizations
- Full distribution

- Distribution Categories:

- John Cunning

## MADIS URLs

- Home Page
- 		www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/MADIS
- Mesonet Providers
- 		www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/MADIS/mesonet_providers.html
- Multi-Agency Profiler Providers
- 		www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/MADIS/map_providers.html
- Real-Time Surface Observation Display
- 		www-frd.fsl.noaa.gov/mesonet/
- Real-Time Profiler Display
- 		www.profiler.noaa.gov/examples/jsp/profile/displayer.jsp

- John Cunning