NOAA ERDDAP

NOAA Environmental Research Division Data Access Program (ERDDAP) is a free, publicly accessible REST API and data server that provides a simple, consistent way to search, subset, and download gridded and tabular oceanographic, meteorological, and climate science datasets in a wide variety of common file formats.

NOAA ERDDAP publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Data Access API, Discovery API, Files API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include oceanography, meteorology, climate, environmental data, and gridded data.

The NOAA ERDDAP catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

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27.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

4 APIs

oceanographymeteorologyclimateenvironmental datagridded datatabular datascientific datagovernmentNOAAopen data

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Composite quality — 27.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 16.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Examples 5

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Source (apis.yml)

name: NOAA ERDDAP
description: NOAA Environmental Research Division Data Access Program (ERDDAP) is a free, publicly accessible REST API and
  data server that provides a simple, consistent way to search, subset, and download gridded and tabular oceanographic, meteorological,
  and climate science datasets in a wide variety of common file formats.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/crop_394x394/public/2022-03/NOAA_2022_logo.png
tags:
- oceanography
- meteorology
- climate
- environmental data
- gridded data
- tabular data
- scientific data
- government
- NOAA
- open data
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: noaa-erddap:noaa-erddap-data-access-api
  name: NOAA ERDDAP Data Access API
  description: Download subsets of tabular or gridded data.
  humanURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/index.html
  baseURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap
  tags:
  - Data Access
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/noaa-erddap-data-access-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/rest.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/documentation.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/documentation.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: noaa-erddap:noaa-erddap-discovery-api
  name: NOAA ERDDAP Discovery API
  description: Search and browse available datasets.
  humanURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/index.html
  baseURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap
  tags:
  - Discovery
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/noaa-erddap-discovery-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/rest.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/documentation.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/documentation.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: noaa-erddap:noaa-erddap-files-api
  name: NOAA ERDDAP Files API
  description: Browse and download raw files associated with a dataset.
  humanURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/index.html
  baseURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap
  tags:
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/noaa-erddap-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/rest.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/documentation.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/documentation.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: noaa-erddap:noaa-erddap-metadata-api
  name: NOAA ERDDAP Metadata API
  description: Inspect variable and attribute metadata for a specific dataset.
  humanURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/index.html
  baseURL: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap
  tags:
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/noaa-erddap-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/rest.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/documentation.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/documentation.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/noaa-erddap/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/noaa-erddap-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/noaa-erddap-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

NOAA ERDDAP

Kin Score

APIs 4

NOAA ERDDAP Data Access API

NOAA ERDDAP Discovery API

NOAA ERDDAP Files API

NOAA ERDDAP Metadata API

Pricing Plans 1

Plans

Rate Limits 1

Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Api Context

Examples 5

Advanced Search

Get Dataset Metadata

Griddap Query

Search Datasets

Tabledap Query

Security Posture 1

Noaa Erddap Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Noaa Erddap Agentic Access

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

Access & Security 1

Source (apis.yml)