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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- Launch Application
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

The CIP and FIP graphics are computer-generated three-dimensional analyses of information related to the likelihood of encountering icing conditions. This information is available for the 48 contiguous United States, much of Canada and Mexico, and their respective coastal waters.

The CIP/FIP graphics suite is automatically produced with no human modifications. Information on the graphics is determined from observational data including WSR-88D radar, satellite, pilot weather reports, surface weather reports, lightning and computer model output. The CIP represents the latest analysis of potential icing regions. Besides the most-recent analyses, a forecast of anticipated icing conditions is available in the FIP product.

CIP/FIP graphics may be used as a higher-resolution supplement to AIRMETs and SIGMETs , but not as a substitute for the icing severity and other information they provide. CIP/FIP are authorized for use as an unrestricted, supplementary weather product. See the Supplementary Weather Product Description page for a definition of these terms.

Note: Pilots of aircraft that are not certified for flight into known or forecast icing conditions should be especially cautious of areas displaying any type of icing severity, regardless of the probability indicated on CIP graphics.

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