RAOB Data Types
Data types and formats that RAOB can process.
- ACARS (aircraft sounding) Data
- Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) data.
- BOM (Bureau Of Meteorology) Data from Australia
- Data files contain either a single high-density sounding or multi-sounding time-series forecast soundings.
- BUFKIT Forecast Soundings
- Hourly sequential soundings used by the popular BUFKIT program.
- CLASS/NCAR Data
- These massive high-resolution data files can contain over 1,000 data levels per sounding.
- Commercial Data Types
- Weather Network
- WeatherBank
- WSI
- MeteoSwiss
- FSL/NCDC Archived Data
- GRAW Data
- Produced by the GRAW Company. Each file contains a single high-density sounding.
- IGRA Data
- Integrated Global Radiosonde Archives (an NCDC product).
- InterMet (IMET) Data
- Produced by the International Met Systems company. Each file contains a single high-density sounding.
- KMA Data
- Korean Meteorological Administration.
- RAOB can not directly read the data from the source CD, but RAOB can process the data files produced by the CD’s retrieval software.
- NCDC (TD63 format) CARDS & GTS Data
- RAOB can process NCDC’s 6200/6300 format un-edited datasets from CD-ROM or Internet download.
- NOAA Analysis & Forecast Soundings
- A popular web-based source of forecast soundings, including the following:
- FSL: RUC & MAPS Forecast Soundings
- GSD: Bak/Op/dev Forecast Soundings
- NOAA/READY Data
- Both real-time and forecast soundings.
- PAOS Data
- Recently archived data via University of Colorado at Boulder (Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences).
- RAOB CSV format
- This is a highly versatile, spreadsheet-style format with multiple data format options and allows over 10,000 data levels per sounding.
- SHARP Modified Data
- Data files created by the popular SHARP (Skew-T and Hodograph) program.
- SH4/NASA Space Shuttle Data
- Uniquely formatted data and typically derived from Vaisala data.
- Sippican RTSO Data
- Real-time Serial Output data from MarkII soundings (old and new formats).
- Tephis Data from Canada
- Data files contain GEM 00-48 hour forecast sounding data.
- University of Wyoming (UWYO) data
- A very popular web-based source of sounding data.
- Vaisala EDT & HiRes Data
- Vaisala sounding formats containing 2-second and 6-second data (P, T, Td, and wind data).
- WMO Coded Data
- TTAA, TTBB, PPBB, TTCC, TTDD, and PPDD. (Including 21212 & 51515 data groups) Including Mobile SHIP, LAND MOBILE stations, and Dropsonde (hurricane) soundings. Dropsonde Data is provided by the National Hurricane Center’s "hurricane hunter" planes.