Meteorological Station Providers of Southern California

 

 

 

ASOS - Automated Surface Observing System - (link)
"The Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) is an automated weather observing system designed for aviation purposes. It is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration, National Weather Service (NWS), and the Department of Defense (DOD)."

MARITIME - (link)
The maritime group consists of observations on the ocean. This group consists of platforms maintained by several groups, the NOAA Coastal Marine Automated Network (C-MAN), fixed and drifting buoys, and ship reports, and buoys maintained by the NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), Scripps Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP), and the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System."

SCCOOS - (link)
SCCOOS stations are those whose data pass through the SCCOOS storage and retrieval system. These stations report their data directly and exclusively to this database.

MesoWest - (link)
MesoWest is a cooperative project between researchers at the University of Utah, forecasters at the Salt Lake City National Weather Service Office, the NWS Western Region Headquarters, and personnel of participating agencies, universities, and commercial firms.

RAWS - Remote Automated Weather Stations - (link)
The RAWS stations are an inter-agency network whose data is to assist land management agencies with a variety of projects monitoring air quality, rating fire danger, and providing information for research applications.

APRSWXNET - Automatic Position Reporting System as a WX NETwork - (link)
The APRSWXNET/Citizen Weather Observer Program is a group of ham radio operators and other private citizens around the country that have volunteered the use of their weather data for education, research and use by interested parties.

OTHER-MTR - non-ASOS METARs - (link)
These stations are used for reporting, recording and transmitting weather observations and do not belong to the ASOS class of METAR (METeorological Aerodrome Report).

WXforYou - (link)
Weather for You is a network of publicly owned, personal weather stations that is networked by the NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Mesonet data system.

NOS-PORTS - National Ocean Service - Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System - (link)
These systems are sponsored by NOAA NOS-COOPs and are in place to support safe and cost-efficient navigation by providing ship masters and pilots with accurate real-time information required to avoid groundings and collisions.

More Information - (link)
For more information about the various data providers, please visit the network information page at the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) website supported by the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL).