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Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) - Download

This section is user-password protected. You need to be registered and have a username and a password to get permission to download the contents. If you are not registered, please send an email to Sid.Boukabara@noaa.gov with a request detailing the organization, name, and how we can reach you. This will put you in a low-volume emailing list used to send updates about MIRS, found bugs, improvements, new releases, etc.


This section allows the download of:

  1. The Delivery Algorithm Package (DAP) containing the source code, makefiles, scripts, sample data, benchmark files, static files, etc. For a more detailed list of the content of the DAP, please refer to the documents, also downloadable.
  2. Most recent 7 days of scientific data retrieved by MIRS for both NOAA-18 and METOP-A. Note that these data are of scientific nature and do not constitute the official NOAA products, distributed through OSDPD. The MIRS scientific files are composed of (1) main core products solved for by the 1DVAR system (Environmental Data Records or EDRs) and Vertically-Integrated and Post-Processed (VIPP) data into the Derived EDR products (DEP). These are bundled together in the downloaded packages.
  3. Documents necessary to run MIRS properly: These include the User's manual, the Interface Control Document (ICD), the System Description Document (SDD), etc.

Please click on the left panel options to choose which item to download.