# NOAA ERDDAP

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/noaa-erddap/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 27.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 56.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 25.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (4)

- **NOAA ERDDAP Data Access API** — Download subsets of tabular or gridded data.
- **NOAA ERDDAP Discovery API** — Search and browse available datasets.
- **NOAA ERDDAP Files API** — Browse and download raw files associated with a dataset.
- **NOAA ERDDAP Metadata API** — Inspect variable and attribute metadata for a specific dataset.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Noaa Erddap Agentic Access** — 9 operations

## Security (1)

- **Noaa Erddap Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Oceanography, Meteorology, Climate, Environmental Data, gridded data, Tabular Data, Scientific Data, Government, NOAA, Open Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/noaa-erddap/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.