B. Mann Consulting

Weather Observation Markup Format is an application of XML to describe a particular kind of documents: weather observation reports.

Weather observations are reported in a variety of formats: FM 15-X Ext. METAR, FM 16-X Ext. SPECI, FM 51-X Ext. TAF, synoptic code, etc. These reports constitute AWDS, NWS etc. feeds. Unfortunately, these formats are rather unsuitable for serving of observation information requested for a particular area of interest.

The intent of OMF therefore is annotation of weather reports. The reports should be distributed as they are without any mangling. On the other hand, we would like to mark them up with station information (location, name), decoded data, and with a few derived parameters. This document is to define the format of this markup.