NOAA datasets

Provider access notes.

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Implemented datasets

Planned datasets

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noaa:ghcn-hourly

GHCN-Hourly Station Observations · Planned · target later

Global hourly and sub-hourly surface observations, the successor to ISD. Published as per-station and per-year bulk files by NCEI; the exact access path has not been confirmed yet and must be verified before an adapter is built.

Upstream information Domain: Surface weather.

noaa:lcd

Local Climatological Data · Planned · target later

Hourly, daily, and monthly observations from airport and first-order stations via the NCEI Access Data Service dataset local-climatological-data, addressed by WBAN-based station ids.

Upstream information Domain: Surface weather.

noaa:mrms

Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) · Planned · target later

Gridded CONUS products merged from all radars plus other sensors (reflectivity, precipitation rate and accumulation, severe weather diagnostics), as two-minute gzipped GRIB2 files in the public noaa-mrms-pds S3 bucket laid out as CONUS/PRODUCT/YYYYMMDD/.

Upstream information Domain: Weather radar.

noaa:nexrad-level3

NEXRAD Level III Products · Planned · target later

Derived single-radar products (base reflectivity, velocity, storm totals, and others) in the public unidata-nexrad-level3 S3 bucket, with flat keys SITE_PRODUCT_YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM_SS where the site id drops its leading K. Recent data only; the archive is at NCEI.

Upstream information Domain: Weather radar.

noaa:goes-glm

GOES Geostationary Lightning Mapper · Planned · target later

Lightning flash, group, and event detections (GLM-L2-LCFA) in 20-second NetCDF files under the same GOES S3 buckets and layout as ABI.

Upstream information Domain: Weather satellites.

noaa:hurdat2

HURDAT2 Atlantic and Pacific Best Tracks · Planned · target later

National Hurricane Center best-track database: six-hourly position, intensity, pressure, and wind radii for Atlantic (since 1851) and eastern North Pacific (since 1949) tropical cyclones. One fixed-format text file per basin, refreshed each season; the single-file pattern.

Upstream information Domain: Tropical cyclones.

noaa:ibtracs

IBTrACS Global Tropical Cyclone Tracks · Planned · target later

International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship: merged best tracks from all agencies worldwide since 1842. CSV and NetCDF files by basin or period from an NCEI HTTPS directory (v04r01).

Upstream information Domain: Tropical cyclones.

noaa:gfs

GFS Forecast Model Output · Planned · target later

Global Forecast System output in GRIB2 from the public noaa-gfs-bdp-pds S3 bucket, laid out as gfs.YYYYMMDD/HH/atmos/ with files per resolution and forecast hour (for example pgrb2.0p25.fNNN).

Upstream information Domain: Weather models.

noaa:hrrr

HRRR Forecast Model Output · Planned · target later

High-Resolution Rapid Refresh 3 km hourly forecasts in GRIB2 from the public noaa-hrrr-bdp-pds S3 bucket, laid out as hrrr.YYYYMMDD/conus/ with one file per cycle and forecast hour. Large files; cycle and forecast-hour selection are essential.

Upstream information Domain: Weather models.

noaa:nbm

National Blend of Models · Planned · target later

Statistically blended forecast guidance in GRIB2 from the public noaa-nbm-grib2-pds S3 bucket, laid out as blend.YYYYMMDD/HH/core/ with files per region and forecast hour.

Upstream information Domain: Weather models.

noaa:climate-normals

U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020 · Planned · target later

Daily and monthly station normals via the NCEI Access Data Service datasets normals-daily-1991-2020 and normals-monthly-1991-2020. The daily dataset requires start and end dates inside a placeholder year (for example 2010-01-01 to 2010-12-31).

Upstream information Domain: Climate.

noaa:nclimdiv

nClimDiv Climate Divisional Data · Planned · target later

Monthly temperature, precipitation, and drought indices for U.S. climate divisions, states, and regions since 1895, as fixed-width text files in an NCEI monitoring-content directory refreshed monthly.

Upstream information Domain: Climate.

noaa:sea-ice-index

Sea Ice Index · Planned · target later

Daily and monthly Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent and concentration (NOAA@NSIDC G02135) as CSV, GeoTIFF, and shapefiles in an HTTPS directory hosted by NSIDC.

Upstream information Domain: Snow and ice.

noaa:ersst

ERSST Monthly Sea Surface Temperature · Planned · target later

Extended Reconstructed SST v5: monthly global 2 degree analysis since 1854, one NetCDF per month in an NCEI HTTPS directory.

Upstream information Domain: Ocean physics.

noaa:oisst

OISST Daily Sea Surface Temperature · Planned · target later

Optimum Interpolation SST v2.1: daily global 0.25 degree analysis since September 1981 as one NetCDF per day, from the NOAA CDR S3 bucket (data/v2.1/avhrr/YYYYMM/) or the NCEI HTTPS mirror.

Upstream information Domain: Ocean physics.

noaa:ocads

Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System · Planned · target later

Archived ocean carbon, pH, and related chemistry datasets (cruises, moorings, syntheses such as SOCAT and GLODAP) in an NCEI HTTPS directory organized by accession.

Upstream information Domain: Ocean chemistry.

noaa:etopo

ETOPO 2022 Global Relief · Planned · target later

Global topography and bathymetry at 15, 30, and 60 arc-seconds as NetCDF and GeoTIFF tiles, served through the NCEI THREDDS catalog with OPeNDAP access; the THREDDS pattern.

Upstream information Domain: Bathymetry and hydrography.

noaa:tsunami-events

Global Historical Tsunami Database · Planned · target later

Tsunami source events and runup observations since 2100 BCE from NCEI, served as JSON by the HazEL hazard-service API with year, magnitude, and location filters.

Upstream information Domain: Natural hazards.

noaa:paleo-search

World Data Service for Paleoclimatology · Planned · target later

Proxy climate records (tree rings, ice cores, sediments, corals) with a JSON study-search API from NCEI that returns study metadata and data file URLs filtered by data type, region, and time span.

Upstream information Domain: Paleoclimate.

noaa:swpc-realtime

SWPC Real-Time Space Weather Products · Planned · target later

Planetary K index, solar wind, and other real-time indices as small JSON files from the Space Weather Prediction Center services host. Rolling recent windows only; historical archives live elsewhere.

Upstream information Domain: Space weather.

noaa:cdr-ndvi

NDVI Climate Data Record · Planned · target later

Daily global normalized difference vegetation index from AVHRR and VIIRS since 1981, one NetCDF per day in the public noaa-cdr-ndvi-pds S3 bucket laid out as data/YYYY/.

Upstream information Domain: Land and environment.