The Harris Weather Data Services (HWDS) provides the widest variety of weather data services available from one source. These data services include:
- National Weather Service data, including text, gridded forecast, and Red Book graphic data
- GOES-East and GOES-West, the U.S. geostationary weather satellites, both low- and high-resolution
- National real-time lightning data
- NEXRAD and high-resolution radar mosaics from the NIDS
- Foreign geostationary weather satellites, GMS and
- Custom solutions providing high-resolution polar orbiter weather satellite data including DMSP when its high-resolution data is available
Harris is currently the only commercial provider of high-resolution GOES-East and GOES-West data. The following data products are plain text and coded messages containing both observations and forecasts. Data Products
Alphanumeric Products
These products provide worldwide observations supporting meteorological, hydrologic, agricultural, and other weather-sensitive missions and forecasts from hundreds of weather stations. Examples of the data available via this service include:
- Coded observations
- Great Lakes winds, storm outlook and storm summary
- Ocean surface winds
- Fire weather and forecasts
- Public service weather alerts and severe local storm watches
- Marine advisory warnings
- Aircraft reconnaissance reports
- AIREPs
- Average monthly weather outlooks
- Average seasonal weather outlooks
- Buoy reports
- Climatological monthly means
- Marine guidance products
- Marine/aviation tropical cyclone advisories
- Oceanographic data
- Oceanfront analyses
- Offshore forecasts
- Pilot balloon (PIBAL) observations
- Prognostic reasoning product
- Public tropical cyclone advisories
- Rawinsonde (upper air) observations
- Rocketsonde (upper atmosphere) data
- Satellite: interpretation messages, tropical disturbance summaries, position and intensity reports
- Ship weather observations
- SIGMETS
- Special tropical disturbance statements
- Spectral wave data
- Surface synoptic observations
- Hourly surface observations
- Temperature and precipitation tables
- Terminal forecasts
- Tropical: cyclone discussions, position estimates, updates, depression discussions, weather outlooks and summaries, disturbance summaries
- Tsunami watches and warnings
- Weekly data for agriculture
- Weekly weather and crop reports
- Wind and temperature bulletins (18 and 24 hour)
- 30-day agricultural weather outlooks
- Storm strike probability bulletins
- Computer hurricane guidance
- Hurricane advisories, warnings, watches and post-storm reports
- Major tornado outbreak probabilities, warnings and watches
- Coastal flood warnings
- Non-precipitation warnings and advisories
- Rangeland fire danger forecasts and indices
Gridded Products These data products contain analyses and forecasts derived from the atmospheric models of the NWS and international agencies. Fields include: - Surface pressure, wind heights, temperatures, moisture, tropopause height, maximum winds and maximum wind pressure level.
- Forecast periods out to 60 hours. Extended range forecasts out to 168 hours (7 days).
- Atmospheric models include:
- ETA
- NGM
- GFS>
- Sea Surface Temperature
Red Book Graphics Products This data service disseminates approximately 350 charts mainly for the use of the meteorologist as an aid to formulating weather forecasts. This includes: - Model guidance charts
- National radar summaries
- Objective forecasts
- Manually prepared analyses and
forecast charts for surface and aloft - Climatological charts
- Severe weather probabilities
- Ocean surface wind forecasts
- Crop moisture index
- Drought/wetness map
National Weather Satellite Service - GOES-East and GOES-West
- High resolution and low resolution sectors are available for all GOES imagery channels, visible, infrared, and water vapor. Full navigation information included in each image to provide accurate earth location registration. Useful for locating and tracking thunderstorms, frontal movement hurricanes and other storms in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific.
Notices to Airmen - Notices to Airmen
- This data service provides FAA notices issued through the U.S. Notam Service. Examples of Notams include:
- FDC Notams,
- Domestic Notams, and
- Temporary Flight Restrictions
NEXRAD Services - NEXRAD Service
- NEXRAD and high-resolution radar mosaics.
Subscribers may choose to receive the Harris Weather Data Services (HWDS) by either a Ku-band satellite antenna or a T1 digital circuit. Satellite antenna sizes will vary, depending on location. Full installation services are available.
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