/metar_grabber

Tools to download METAR data, NOAA products, and satellite imagery for GEMPAK.

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METAR Grabber

Originally designed to automate the collection of METAR and other data to feed GEMPAK installations for private users that must download them.

Functions:

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.