NOAA Weather In-Situ Deployment Optimization Method

WISDOM Data

WISDOM data is made available by the Earth Systems Research Laboratory (ESRL) / Global Systems Division's (GSD) Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest Sytem (MADIS). MADIS is dedicated to distributing value-added meteorological observations to the entire meteorological community, and the WISDOM dataset is just one of many that is made available. 

MADIS subscribers have access to an integrated, reliable and easy-to-use database containing the real-time and archived observational datasets, including the WISDOM balloon winds.

Quality Control (QC) of MADIS observations is also provided, since considerable evidence exists that the retention of erroneous data, or the rejection of too many good data, can substantially distort forecast products. Observations in the ESRL/GSD database are stored with a series of flags indicating the quality of the observation from a variety of perspectives (e.g. temporal consistency and spatial consistency), or more precisely, a series of flags indicating the results of various QC checks. Users of MADIS can then inspect the flags and decide whether or not to ingest the observation.

MADIS also includes an Application Program Interface (API) that provides users with easy access to the observations and quality control information. The API allows each user to specify station and observation types, as well as QC choices, and domain and time boundaries.

For more information on MADIS, please visit: http://madis.noaa.gov/.