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Rice Kinder Udp Dataset Detail Example
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Rice Kinder Udp Dataset Detail Example is an example object payload from Rice University, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.
Top-level fields
_provenancerecord
Example Payload
{
"_provenance": {
"generated": "2026-09-01",
"method": "probed",
"source": "GET https://lg4tooqkr1.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/datasets/g79ekp1m5xyq (HTTP 200, application/json, 2140 bytes) on 2026-09-01. Unauthenticated.",
"operator": "institution",
"note": "Note suggestedCitation — the API names its own publisher as 'Rice University-Kinder Institute: UDP'.",
"authorship": "This artifact was generated by API Evangelist from live public probes on 2026-09-01. It is not published by Rice University and Rice did not author it."
},
"record": {
"accessRestriction": "Available to all members",
"category": "Environment",
"dataciteName": null,
"doi": null,
"earliestDate": "2000-01-01",
"fullDescription": "Hourly readings of solar radiation (SORD – parameter code 63301) from monitoring sites in Harris County downloaded from the Texas Air Monitoring System (TAMIS) web interface, which is managed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The data are presented in pipe-delimited text files that follow \"Raw Data Report (AQS)\" format.<br><br>The records are not geo-coded but do include an AQS Site ID, which can then be linked to the separate geocoded \"TCEQ Air Quality Monitoring Sites\" dataset. <br><br>Note that there is a similar dataset for Montgomery county, but the equivalent queries for Fort Bend county returned no data.",
"geoExtent": "Harris County",
"geoResolution": "Point Level",
"isDownloadable": true,
"isGeocoded": false,
"isHiddenFromPublic": false,
"isInGdb": false,
"isInUdp": true,
"keywords": "TCEQ; air quality; solar radiation; SORD; 63301; Houston",
"latestDate": "2017-12-31",
"originalDataCitation": "Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (2018). AQS Raw Data Transaction Report - Hourly - Parameter code 63301 - Harris County. [Data set]. Available from http://www17.tceq.texas.gov/tamis/index.cfm, retrieved on April 4, 2018.",
"paperCitation": null,
"relatedDatasets": [
{
"relationType": "IsSupplementedBy",
"id": "8g691e942qqm"
},
{
"relationType": "HasPart",
"id": "ne0bx3d16kkj"
}
],
"releaseDate": "2018-06-19",
"released": null,
"shortDescription": "Hourly readings of solar radiation (SORD – parameter code 63301) from air quality/meteorology monitoring sites in Harris County.",
"source": "TCEQ",
"specificYears": null,
"status": "Raw dataset",
"suggestedCitation": "Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (2018). Solar Radiation (63301_SORD) readings. [Data set]. Rice University-Kinder Institute: UDP. https://www.kinderudp.org/#/datasetCatalog/g79ekp1m5xyq. ",
"tabularResolution": "monitoring station per hour",
"udpName": "Solar Radiation (63301_SORD) readings",
"updateFreq": "Every 2 years",
"versionNo": "0"
}
}
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