NovaStar Reference / Data Formats / NWS MADIS

• Overview
• Standard NovaStar Properties
• Limitations
• Importing Data into NovaStar
• Exporting Data from NovaStar

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Overview

The United States (US) National Weather Service (NWS) publishes meteorological data on the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) website. The following links are useful:

• MADIS home page
• 1-Minute ASOS Data - real-time weather data including precipitation
• One Minute ASOS Precipitation Inventory - explains precipitation collection
• Notes - MADIS Surface Variables - explanation of MADIS data format
• MADIS Surface Variables - 1-minute ASOS - list of 1-minute variables

See also the following form to query data:

• MADIS Meteorological Surface Text/XML Viewer

MADIS data are not currently available in a web services interface. Therefore data must be harvested using, for example, the cgi-bin URL generated using the form from above.

Standard NovaStar Properties

The downloaded station data must be mapped to NovaStar by defining stations and points and using an appropriate data import program.

Limitations

• Need to describe SHEF support limitations in NovaStar.

Importing Data into NovaStar

See the Data Import Overview documentation.

A TSTool software workflow can be used to download data and format for NovaStar data import.

Exporting Data from NovaStar

The MADIS data format is not typically used by other software. Data can be export from NovaStar in other formats.