.. _vx-data-mping:

mPING
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Description
  Meteorological Phenomena Identification Near the Ground (mPING) is a crowd-sourced weather observing network developed through partnership between the National Severe Storms Laboratory, The University of Oklahoma, and the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies.
  
  https://mping.ou.edu/
 
  https://mping.nssl.noaa.gov/ 

Sample image

  .. image:: images/mping.png
   :width: 600

Recommended use
  Evaluating weather types, including precipitation, hail size, wind, visibility, flood, tornadoes, and mud/landslides

File format
  ASCII 

Location of data
  To request access: https://mping.ou.edu/static/mping/access.html

Access restrictions
  Both research and commerical licenses are available (access link above)

Spatial resolution, grid, or coverage
  Reports can be submitted from anywhere in the world; however, reports typically are over CONUS

Temporal resolution
  Varies

Starting and/or ending dates
  2012-Present

Data latency
  Real-time

Variables available
  None, drizzle, freezing drizzle, rain, freezing rain, ice pellets/sleet, snow, mixed rain/snow, mixed ice pellets/snow, hail, wind damage (by severity), flooding (by severity), mudslide/landslide, dense fog, and blowing dust/sand

METplus Use Cases
  Link to `METplus Use Cases <https://metplus.readthedocs.io/en/develop/search.html?q=VxDataMPING%26%26UseCase&check_keywords=yes&area=default>`_ for this dataset.

Keywords
  .. note:: **Current Dataset:** VxDataMPING

  .. note:: **Data Labels:** DataTypePoint, DataLevelSurface, DataProviderOU, DataApplicationPrecipitation, DataApplicationShortRange