On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 05:45, Erik Hofman wrote: > David Megginson wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a world-wide source for downloadable digital > > information on winds aloft? > > I think this comes closest to what is available. > I'm not sure how usefull these TAF reports are: > http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/taf.shtml >
TAF reports give predicted winds at ground level and cloud layers, but not upper air wind and temperatures. I believe the only way is using text-based winds aloft forecast (FD). For the US, you can get that at http://aviationweather.gov/fdwinds . For Canada, it's at http://www.flightplanning.navcanada.ca . This data is embedded in a web page with extra stuff. I don't know how to get that information worldwide from a single source. If anyone knows how to get the raw (ascii) data for FD for at least US regions from say an FTP server like ftp://weather.noaa.gov, be my guest. How about setting up an independent project which goals is to provide this kind of data worldwide with an open standard? It would be useful for projects like this one and for things like (Open Source) flight planning software. Cheers, Etienne > Erik > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
