NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NCEI Access Data Service (v1)

The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Access Data Service is the modern, token-free replacement for the legacy CDO web service. It exposes daily summaries (GHCND), hourly summaries, monthly summaries, normals, global summaries of the day, sea-surface temperature, and many archived climate datasets. Returns CSV, JSON, NetCDF, or PDF. Stable endpoint at ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1.

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https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/support/access-data-service-api-user-documentation
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https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: noaa-gov:ncei-access-data-service
name: NCEI Access Data Service (v1)
description: The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Access Data Service is the modern,
  token-free replacement for the legacy CDO web service. It exposes daily summaries (GHCND), hourly summaries,
  monthly summaries, normals, global summaries of the day, sea-surface temperature, and many archived
  climate datasets. Returns CSV, JSON, NetCDF, or PDF. Stable endpoint at ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1.
humanURL: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/support/access-data-service-api-user-documentation
baseURL: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1
tags:
- Climate
- Historical
- Stations
- GHCND
properties:
- url: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/support/access-data-service-api-user-documentation
  type: Documentation
- url: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access
  type: Documentation