metaf2xml can download, parse and decode aviation routine weather reports (METAR, SPECI, SAO), aerodrome forecasts (TAF), synoptic observations (SYNOP), observations from buoys (BUOY) and meteorological reports from aircrafts (AMDAR). Data can also be taken from decoded BUFR messages. The extracted data can be written as XML or passed to a user-defined function (all done in Perl). It also provides XSLT style sheets to convert the XML to plain language (text, HTML), or XML with different schemas. A web-based (CGI) user interface can be used to download and display up-to-date weather data from NOAA, Ogimet, and other sources.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 2.4 posted on 2018-09-02
The period g0 for the SYNOP group 54g0sndT (section 3) defaults to the W1W2 period; timeBeforeObs is used instead of hoursFrom, hoursTill (not backwards compatible). Various additional METAR, SYNOP and BUFR groups are recognised, changes for FMH-1 (2017) were incorporated, and a few bugs were fix... - Version 2.3 posted on 2018-03-21
Perl 5.14.4 or newer (was: 5.10.1) is required. The summary view for clouds now also shows their compass direction. The original message and parts information is included in the data for BUFR messages with multiple observations. Processing of SAO AMOS/RAMOS was improved. The new option -P for ins... - Version 2.2 posted on 2017-06-17
BUFR messages with multiple observations are split into one report per observation. Multiple observations of past weather (with different time periods) are allowed (not backwards compatible). A few minor bugs were fixed and several smaller improvements were made. - Version 2.1 posted on 2016-10-27
The URL for fetching data from NOAA/IWS and NOAA/NWS was adapted, the search in data files was optimised and/or fixed. The friction coefficient for the runway state in METAR is allowed to be 0, all values are now decoded. - Version 1.58 posted on 2015-12-23
The processing of meteorological reports from aircrafts (AMDAR) was added.