NOAA datasets
Released is included in usdata 0.34.0. Source only is implemented in this checkout and requires a source installation. Planned cannot fetch data yet.
Implemented datasets
| Dataset | Availability | Files | What gets selected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole monthly station records, one file per station | Released | CSV | One whole file per named station, every month and element it holds |
| Storm Events details, fatalities, and locations | Released | gzip CSV | Whole annual archives of one table; filter rows locally after downloading |
| SPC tornado, hail, and wind databases | Released | CSV | Whole annual, half-decade, or decade files of one table; filter rows locally after downloading |
| NWS warnings and watches by county | Released | CSV | Events issued for one county or UGC inside an inclusive UTC window; optionally one event type |
| NWS watch, warning, and advisory polygons and areas | Source only | zipped shapefile and CSV (no reader) | Events starting inside an inclusive UTC window, one zip per UTC month; optionally one state or offices, event types, and polygon options |
| SPC convective and fire weather outlook areas | Source only | zipped shapefile (no reader) | Outlooks issued inside an inclusive UTC window, one zip per UTC month; optionally outlook types, days, and geometry form |
| MRMS gridded radar products | Released | GRIB2 (gzipped) | Whole two-minute CONUS grids of one product by inclusive UTC file stamp, at most one day |
| Tropical cyclone best tracks | Released | HURDAT2 fixed-format text | The newest or a named revision of one whole basin file; filter track points locally |
| Global tropical cyclone best tracks | Released | CSV with a units row, NetCDF4 | One whole subset file per query, from the newest or a pinned product version |
| Seasonal El Niño indices, the official RONI and the traditional ONI | Released | whitespace-delimited text (no reader) | One whole index table, every season from DJF 1950; select seasons locally |
| Monthly global 2 degree sea surface temperature since 1850 | Released | NetCDF4 | Whole global monthly files, one for every month the window touches |
| Sea-surface temperature | Released | CSV with units row | Grid centers and timestamps inside the requested bounds; optional stride |
| Post-event aerial imagery tiles | Released | GeoTIFF | Whole GeoTIFFs of one event folder, optionally by subfolder and by the footprint that tile names give |
NCEI Access Data Service
| Dataset | Availability | Files | What gets selected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily station weather | Released | CSV | Station observations within inclusive calendar dates; selected elements |
| Monthly station climate | Released | CSV | Complete UTC calendar months touched by the query; station and element filters |
| Annual station climate | Released | CSV | Complete UTC calendar years touched by the query; station and element filters |
| Hourly airport observations | Released | CSV | Every report on whole calendar days per station; optional column filters |
| 30-year station climate normals | Released | CSV | Hourly, daily, monthly, or annual/seasonal normals per station; optional month-day window except annual/seasonal; hourly returns whole days |
NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit (DAT)
| Dataset | Availability | Files | What gets selected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photos from NWS damage surveys, one file per damage point attachment | Released | JPEG, PNG | Each JPEG or PNG attached to a damage point with storm time in an inclusive UTC window of at most 7 days |
| NWS damage survey points, tornado tracks, and damage areas | Released | GeoJSON | One layer's features with storm time in an inclusive UTC window, optionally in a box; one page per object-id run |
Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD)
| Dataset | Availability | Files | What gets selected |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEXRAD radar scans | Released | NEXRAD Level II | Whole radar scans by site and inclusive UTC scan-start time |
| NEXRAD derived radar products | Released | NEXRAD Level III (no reader) | Whole product files by site, product code, and inclusive UTC scan time since 2020-03-30 |
GOES-R Series
| Dataset | Availability | Files | What gets selected |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOES ABI imagery, multiband scenes, and cloud-top products | Released | NetCDF4 | Whole scenes of one ABI product by inclusive UTC scan-start time, with one channel or mesoscale sector where the product has them |
| GOES lightning detections | Released | NetCDF4 | Whole 20-second detection files by inclusive UTC file-start time, at most one day |
NCEP model output
| Dataset | Availability | Files | What gets selected |
|---|---|---|---|
| GFS model output | Released | GRIB2 | Global files, whole or by named GRIB2 message, chosen by run initialization window, cycle hour, forecast hours, and grid resolution |
| HRRR model output | Released | GRIB2 | CONUS files, whole or by named GRIB2 message, chosen by run initialization window, cycle hour, forecast hours, and file variant |
| NBM forecast guidance | Released | GRIB2 | Regional core files, whole or by named GRIB2 message, chosen by run initialization window, cycle hour, forecast hours, and region |
| RAP model output | Released | GRIB2 | Files, whole or by named GRIB2 message, chosen by run initialization window, cycle hour, forecast hours, and file family |
CO-OPS Data API
| Dataset | Availability | Files | What gets selected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal current speed and direction | Released | CSV | Native six-minute observations for one station and explicit bin; at most 28 days |
| Coastal water levels | Released | CSV | Six-minute observations for one station and datum; at most 28 days |
| Coastal tide predictions | Released | CSV | Predictions for one station and datum on a chosen interval; at most a year |
Planned datasets
These entries are not implemented; they cannot fetch data.
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:igra
IGRA Radiosonde Observations · Planned · target later
Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive version 2: observed upper-air soundings from 2,931 stations as one zipped fixed-width text file per station for its full period of record (about 81 MB for Norman, Oklahoma), plus year-to-date and derived-parameter directories, from an NCEI HTTPS directory. Needs a fixed-width sounding reader.
Upstream information Domain: Surface weather.
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: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:billion-dollar-disasters
Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters · Planned · target later
NCEI's list of U.S. disasters with CPI-adjusted and unadjusted costs, dates, and deaths since 1980, served as one CSV with two header comment lines from the NCEI access service (about 36 kB for all events).
Upstream information Domain: Natural hazards.
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.