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DAFS Turbulence + Icing Guidance (GTG/IFI)

NCEP Digital Aviation Forecast Support (DAFS) — gridded turbulence (GTG) and in-flight icing (IFI) fields for the CONUS.

Agency

NOAA

Update cadence

Every 6 hours

Category

Weather

What we ingest

GRIB2 records fetched by byte-range from NOMADS and baked into the hazard tile pyramid: column-max EDR turbulence (MXEDPRM) plus per-level EDR (EDPARM) at the 3,000/6,000/9,000/12,000/18,000 ft altitude bands, and from the IFI file the icing severity, icing probability and supercooled-large-drop (SLD) fields at the 3,000/6,000/9,000/12,000 ft bands.

Where this feed reaches

A region on this list means we fetch it. It is not a promise of station density: a listed region can still have sparse or no reporting sites near a given airport. Where a feed does not reach a region at all, this page says so instead of showing an empty panel.

  • Continental United States

How AeroCopilot uses it

Gridded turbulence overlay on the planning map and cruise-altitude hazard context, distinct from the G-AIRMET turbulence advisory.

Powers these features

The product surfaces below depend on this feed.

Map hazards layerCruise optimizer

Cite this

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AeroCopilot — DAFS Turbulence + Icing Guidance (GTG/IFI). Data: NOAA (https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/dafs/v1.0/). https://www.aerocopilot.ai/data-sources/dafs-gtg.

Try the AI Copilot with this data

The Copilot has live access to DAFS Turbulence + Icing Guidance (GTG/IFI) during every conversation.