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20020115: IDD data for Mexico

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  • Subject: 20020115: IDD data for Mexico
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:55:42 -0700
>From: Benjamin de Foy <address@hidden>
>Organization: MIT
>Keywords: 200201152005.g0FK59x16834 IDD Mexico

Benjamin,

>I am working at MIT on real-time meso-scale modelling for Mexico City and
>am interested in finding out what data is available for Mexico. I have
>spoken to Lodovica Illari about this and she suggested I ask you about
>availability and also about the ingestion pattern we would need to put into
>LDM.

If the stations being decoded by McIDAS are any indication of the breadth
of what is in the IDD datastream for Mexico, then the following list
may be of help:

 Day Time StCo  Stn   T  Td  Dir Spd Gus AltSet  Vis  Weather  Ceil
     hhmm        id  [F] [F]     [ kts ]  [mb]   [mi]
---- ---- ---- ----- --- --- --- --- --- ------ ----- -------- -----
  16 1345   MX MMAA   72  66 340   5     1014.2 10.00
  16 1345   MX MMBT   72  64 000   0     1015.9  7.00
  16 1345   MX MMCE   70  68 000   0     1019.6  5.00 H        5/010
  16 1345   MX MMCM          360   6             2.00 F        8/005
  16 1345   MX MMCP   63  63 000   0     1022.3  0.50 F        8/002
  16 1400   MX MMCS
S 16 1410   MX MMCS   54  30 270  10     1016.6 10.00
  16 1345   MX MMCZ   75  72 000   0     1017.9 10.00
  16 1345   MX MMEP   41  39 000   0     1023.0 12.00          5/210
  16 1347   MX MMGL   39  37 000   0     1024.0  0.10 FH
  16 1345   MX MMGM   54  46 000   0     1019.6 15.00
  16 1346   MX MMHO   55  37 000   0     1016.2 10.00          5/200
  16 1345   MX MMLM   61  55 090   5     1019.0 10.00
  16 1345   MX MMLO   41  32 350   5     1025.7  8.00
  16 1355   MX MMLP
  16 1355   MX MMLT
S 16 1415   MX MMMA   64  63 120   4     1018.6  4.00 HK
  16 1400   MX MMMD   64  64 000   0     1020.0  0.10 F        8/002
S 16 1435   MX MMMD   68  68 000   0     1020.0  0.50 FH
  16 1345   MX MMMM   37  36 000   0     1026.1 10.00
S 16 1425   MX MMMT   61  61 240   5     1023.7  2.00 F        5/090
  16 1345   MX MMMX   41  34 070   5     1030.1  3.00 FHK
S 16 1420   MX MMMX   43  36 060   4     1030.8  3.00 FHK
  16 1346   MX MMMZ   57  52 000   0     1015.2 15.00
  16 1345   MX MMNL   59  59 140   5     1019.0  3.00 H        8/005
S 16 1402   MX MMNL   61  61 160   5     1019.0  2.00 F        8/004
  16 1345   MX MMOX   48  41 020   6     1026.1  8.00
  16 1345   MX MMPA   57  57 000   0     1018.3  1.00 F
  16 1345   MX MMPB   45  34 320  10     1027.1 15.00
  16 1345   MX MMPN   45  43 000   0     1023.0 25.00
  16 1347   MX MMPR   61  55 360   6     1015.9 12.00          5/210
  16 1345   MX MMPS   75  66 070  10     1017.3  8.00
  16 1345   MX MMQT   46  37 080  10     1026.1 10.00
  16 1355   MX MMSD
  16 1345   MX MMSP   36  36 000   0     1025.7  3.00 FH
  16 1350   MX MMTG   57  57 360  12     1023.0  0.00 F        8/000
  16 1346   MX MMTJ   52  45 000   0     1018.3  8.00          5/030
S 16 1430   MX MMTM   64  63 210   5     1019.0  0.30 F        8/002
  16 1345   MX MMTO   28  28 000   0     1029.1  0.00 F        8/001
  16 1345   MX MMTP   72  64 000   0     1014.2 15.00
  16 1345   MX MMUN   73  72 000   0     1019.6  7.00
  16 1345   MX MMVA   68  68 000   0     1020.3  5.00 H        5/060
  16 1345   MX MMVR   59  55 280   6     1020.3  5.00 FH
  16 1345   MX MMZC   36  27 180   6     1022.3 10.00
  16 1345   MX MMZH   73  64 000   0     1015.2 10.00
Number of reports = 45
SFCLIST: done

>I have seen information on the web about Mexico's automated stations (EHCA,
>see: http://smn.cna.gob.mx/productos/ehcas/ehcas.htm ). The web site says
>that the information is sent every 3 hours by GOES sattelite, and I was
>wandering if you had these stations (there is very good coverage in and
>around Mexico City) in your data streams in addition to the usual Mexican
>weather stations.

If these stations get added to the NOAAPORT NWSTG channel (channel 3),
then they will be included in the data that we distribute by the IDD.
If they are included in NOAAPORT channel 4 (the DCP channel), then it
may be possible for us to inject them into the textual observation
stream that we send in the IDD.  We are currently not doing this since
the text stream component of the IDD is created from ingest platforms
that are only getting NOAAPORT channel 3.

>Thank you very much for your support,

We will try to take a closer look in NOAAPORT channel 4 when we return
to Boulder next week (we are currently at the AMS annual meeting in
Orlando, FL).

>Benjamin de Foy
>__________________________________________________________________
>Benjamin de Foy, PhD
>Post-Doctoral Associate, Mexico City Project
>(http://eaps.mit.edu/megacities/)
>
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Room 54-1415, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA
>E-mail: address@hidden, Tel: +1-617-253 3639, Fax: +1-617-258 6525

Tom Yoksas

>From address@hidden Wed Jan 16 15:12:59 2002
>Subject: Re: 20020115: IDD data for Mexico 

Tom,

Thank you very much for your quick reply, I really appreciate it.  I'll
find out more on my end thanks to the info you sent me and maybe
contact you again after the conference about the extra channel (I am
myself at a workshop next week, so we're talking the week after that
(beginning Feb)).

Thanks again,
Benjamin
__________________________________________________________________
Benjamin de Foy, PhD
Post-Doctoral Associate, Mexico City Project
(http://eaps.mit.edu/megacities/)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 54-1415, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA
E-mail: address@hidden, Tel: +1-617-253 3639, Fax: +1-617-258 6525