REGIONAL CLIMATE CENTERS

Ingest processes collect real-time data from Internet and satellite sources multiple times per day to assure ACIS data are as up-to-date as possible. Ingest modules provide preliminary quality control of these values. Additionally, the RCCs developed and operate the primary data ingest software for the National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program (COOP). These data, which are the backbone for daily climate observations in the U.S., undergo more extensive quality control before inclusion into ACIS often in less than a hour after being reported by the observer.