Catalog
NOAA National Weather Service
Aviation Weather TAF Forecasts
OpenL4Data productAeronauticalForecast (NWP)
Terminal aerodrome forecasts through the official aviation weather API. Forecast issuance, validity and station availability vary.
Aviation Weather Center
Category
Models and forecasts
Update cadence
—
Latency
—
Archive
2026 – present
Instruments
Terminal forecast analysis
Sources
Aviation Weather Center
Formats
GeoJSON, JSON, XML, IWXXM, Raw text
Pricing
Free
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
IRI
terrafabric.world/id/collection/noaa-aviation-forecasts
Access
Open data, retrieved directly from the source under its licence.
Access endpoints
- httpshttps://aviationweather.gov/data/api/Catalog entry reviewed 2026-09-29; start denotes catalog inclusion, not archive inception. Bounding box is nominal scope, not survey coverage. Follow source inventories, terms and formats. Discovery only; no live footprint adapter is supplied for this collection.
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
No restrictions on use; citation requested.
open: trueattribution: falsecommercial use: true
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