Experimental ADDS

Weather Products
Advisories
- AIR/SIGMETs
Observed Products
Forecasted Products
- Convection
- Winds/Temps
- Turbulence
- Prog Charts
- Icing
- TAFs
These products are available online and run directly within your web browser.
Desktop Apps
Flight Path Tool

Provides all ADDS weather products in a single interactive display. Slices through 4D datasets horizontally at a flight level, vertically along a flight path, and in time. Includes meteorograms at surface points.
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HEMS Tool

Provides weather of interest to low altitude pilots in an interactive display. Interpolates 3D weather variables to AGL altitudes. Includes street-scale basemaps.
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These "all-in-one" applications run outside of the web browser and your system may require additional configuration before you are able to launch them.
Data Services
Text Data Server

The Text Data Server enhances and complements the ADDS web site by providing flexible and queryable access to real-time METARs, PIREPs, TAFs, and AIR/SIGMETs data.
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In addition to the weather products and desktop applications, ADDS also provides service level access to selected real-time data.

Overview

After extensive re-design and consideration of user feedback, the ADDS development team released version 2 of the flagship ADDS Java application, the Flight Path Tool in April 2008. We believe the new tool is significantly improved from prior versions and is the most comprehensive and user-friendly weather visualization software available. Like its predecessor, the Flight Path Tool displays three-dimensional icing, turbulence, winds, temperature, and humidity in horizontal and vertical views. Newly available two-dimensional data include satellite, radar, cloud ceiling, surface visibility, and flight category. The ceiling, surface visibility, and flight category data include a low confidence overlay. Typical forecast and observed textual data including surface weather reports (METARs), terminal forecasts (TAFs), voice and automated pilot reports (PIREPs), and en-route weather advisories (AIRMETs and SIGMETs) that are available to view graphically and/or in text form. Another new feature in this version is the Meteorogram tool that combines past observed weather data (METARs) combined with future prediction (TAFs) in tabular form.

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