High-Resolution Temperature Program Observation Information and Data Access

Overview

Information

Background

The purpose of the observation and data-handling tasks is to provide a broader and more-intensive set of observations for model initialization, diagnostic model evaluation, atmospheric-process characterization, and subjective forecasting. The tasks are shared by the NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services the NWS Office of Science and Technology, the NWS Eastern Region, the OAR Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL) , and the OAR Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) Global Systems Division (GSD).

Observation Tasks

• Install and operate boundary layer wind profilers at in the New England region, with emphasis on providing more detailed spatial air-motion observations, vertical profilers of air motions, boundary-layer dynamics, and nighttime transport. (ETL)

• Enhance the surface measurements of temperature and precipitation, by automating Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) sites in the New England region, with emphasis on providing a more uniform density of surface observations. (NWS)

• Collect and make available to forecasters and prediction models data from Cooperative Agency Profilers (CAP) and regional mesonets already in place, whose data are not yet centrally collected nor operationally used. Included in the mesonet dataset are observations from the ESRL/GSD Ground-Based GPS-IPW project (ESRL/GSD)

Data-Handling Tasks

• Acquire, ingest, and quality control ETL and CAP boundary layer profiler, regional mesonet, and COOP observations. Store the observations in a central database, and provide them to participating organizations and other interested parties. (ESRL/GSD)

Data Access

To obtain access to data files containing observations from the New England High-Resolution Temperature Program, fill in the MADIS data application form, or contact Patty Miller at Patricia.A.Miller@noaa.gov.