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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - A US government agency which monitors and researches the oceans and atmosphere.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a US government agency that monitors and researches the oceans and atmosphere.

NOAA has a public API that you can use to fetch climate data for your project.


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MKOverlayRenderer for NOAA radar image not displaying properly (stretched)

Im trying to display a NOAA radar image into my MapView using a subclassed MKOverlay in conjunction with a subclassed MKOverlayRenderer. Ive looked at several other links and have tried several methods but I either dont get any image at all…
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Loop a public image directory that doesn't have an HTML file

I'm trying to dynamically get the images from the NOAA / National Weather Service here https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/RadarImg/N0R/MTX using JavaScript and it's proving to be tricky. Even though the names of the image files are…
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Using the NCDC's Climate Data Online API with Java

I have never used a RESTful API. I want to use this API to get historical weather data, but I can't find a simple tutorial taking me from end to end making an app that uses a RESTful API in Java. I'm not sure what steps I should take to get the…
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Download Files via FTP NOAA

I'm trying to download data via ftp from the NOAA website. This is CPC Global Temperature data. However I am getting a permission error. What should I do ? please from ftplib import FTP # ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/cpc_global_temp/ # Dataset…
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NCDC Web Services weather data with REST and PHP

I am trying to read precipitation data from the National Climatic Data Center's online web services with PHP, but I can't figure out how to read it. The documentation says that it is a RESTful web service. I have gotten a token, and I have tried…
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NOAA API Web Service Chance of Rain Numbers

I’m using NOAA's API Web Service to download a point forecast. I'm doing this with a python script that uses the json and noaa_sdk libraries. I successfully pulled a json file for a specific location (lat, long) and I get the 7-day forecast. The…
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Write raster using nc data in r

I am using https://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/gldas GLDAS_NOAH10_M: GLDAS Noah Land Surface Model (netcdf4 format) to extract snow water equivalent and soil moisture. Snow water equivalent shows 3 dimensions(lat, lon and time) and I can easily write its…
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Multiplying layers of rasterbrick with different values based on month

I downloaded a monthly precipitation data in netcdf format from NOAA (CPC Unified guage). The data were stored in mm/day and I need to multiply each layer with counts of their respective month to get the total precipitation for the month. For…
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Looking for R code to sum a variable across rows based off a range of possible values contained within the same row

I'm working with a simple dataset. It contains three variables of interest. 1. Date YYYY-MM-DD 2. Hourly (##) 3. Precip_H (#.##). My situation is that I am trying to find code that will for example, sum the precip_H values across rows that are equal…
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Concat dataframes: give unique names to columns and drop duplicates

I am iterating through monthly weather station data. I can concatenate the files as follows: path = r"D:\NOAA\output\TEST" all_files = glob.glob(path + "/*.csv") for filename in all_files: print filename # prints…
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Using java netcdfAll to read NOAA CFS (grib) file

I have downloaded this file from the noaa site Using netcdfAll I can see the variable metadata [int GaussLatLon_Projection; :grid_mapping_name = "latitude_longitude"; :earth_radius = 6371229.0; // double , float lat(lat=576); :units =…
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Ruby putting token key in requests

I dont know how to put my key into my requests so they are sent back as {"status"=>"400", "message"=>"Token parameter is required."} This is the code I have been using require 'net/http' require 'json' token = 'YiwwVvywLngtPT***************' url =…
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Looking for a solution in R to loop through a date range to get climate data from NOAA API

NOAA has a request limit of 1000. I am trying to get 1 year worth of climate data of (PRCP, TMAX, TMIN which is over 1000) and put into a data frame. I have tried a while loop to go through the date range one day at a time start <-…
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Trying to open a series of netCDF files with using OpenDAP

I want to open all the data from 1950-2005 using xarray and open_mfdataset. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/thredds/catalog/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis/surface/catalog.html This is what I have done so…
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How to Import NOAA-CRN Data Files?

I downloaded .txt files of NOAA-CRN data, which after removing data that I am not interested in and saved as .csv look like: 4 5 10 LST_DATE LST_TIME T_HR_AVG YYYYMMDD HHmm Celsius 20150101 0 …
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