Originally designed to automate the collection of METAR and other data to feed GEMPAK installations for private users that must download them.
From iastate.edu:
- Profile data
- 6 min profile data
- Aggregate METAR
- Upper air sounding info
- L2 radar images
From NOAA directly:
- IR sat images
- Visible sat images
- Water Vapor sat images
- NAM (North American Model) product
- RAP (Rapid Refresh) product (replaced RUC on 1 May 2012)
- GFS (Global Forecast System) product
Calculated:
- GRIB parsing of RAP data
Added to internal Go build server.