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NOAA Climate Data Online

NOAA Climate Data Online: daily weather-station records (GHCN-Daily).

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Leaves your machineQueries onlyWhat you ask NOAA Climate Data Online for: the data, places, periods or search words of each load. The key goes with the requests.

You needAn API keyGet a free token by email at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/token and set NOAA_TOKEN (five requests a second, 10,000 a day).

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What is in it

Daily weather-station records worldwide (NOAA GHCN-Daily, via Climate Data Online): maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, snowfall, snow depth per station and day, from the 1800s for some stations. Good for station-level climate trends and extremes, and weather controls tied to a place. Needs a free NOAA token (NOAA_TOKEN).

In e2er's words, from the source's definition.

ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web

Terms of use for the data

Free; the API needs a free token (five requests a second, 10,000 a day).
NOAA states no licence and no limit on passing the data on.
Cite GHCN-Daily (doi:10.7289/V5D21VHZ) with the subset used and the access date, and Menne et al. (2012).

Full terms · ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00861

The terms as e2er records them

No licence stated. The dataset page (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/metadata/landing-page/bin/iso?id=gov.noaa.ncdc:C00861) gives as use constraint: "Cite as: Menne, M. J., Durre, I., Korzeniewski, B., McNeill, S., Thomas, K., Yin, X., Anthony, S., Ray, R., Vose, R. S., Gleason, B. E., and Houston, T. G. (2012): Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), Version 3. NOAA National Climatic Data Center. [indicate subset used]. ... [access date]. Publications citing this dataset should also cite the following article: ..." and "In most cases, electronic downloads of the data are free." The web service (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2): "An access token is required to use the API".

Listed with the open datasets: Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), NOAA NCEI Climate Data Online

How to cite

Menne, M. J., Durre, I., Korzeniewski, B., McNeill, S., Thomas, K., Yin, X., Anthony, S., Ray, R., Vose, R. S., Gleason, B. E., and Houston, T. G. (2012): Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), Version 3. NOAA National Climatic Data Center. doi:10.7289/V5D21VHZ [subset used; access date]. And: Menne, M. J., Durre, I., Vose, R. S., Gleason, B. E., and Houston, T. G. (2012): An Overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network-Daily Database. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 29, 897-910. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00103.1

Where it lives

Built into e2er.

Templates that can use it

Descriptive data study Empirical study Empirical study, pre-registered Event study in finance Policy evaluation (difference-in-differences)Spatial analysis Text analysis Time series and forecasting

Technical details

Setting: NOAA_TOKEN

Code in e2er: src/modules/data/sources/noaa.py

e2er-data noaa stations: List GHCN-Daily stations in a region, e.g. --bbox -74.3,40.5,-73.7,40.9 --datatypes TMAX.
e2er-data noaa daily: Daily observations of stations, e.g. --stations USW00094728 --datatypes TMAX,TMIN,PRCP --start 2020-01-01 --end 2024-12-31.

Description

Data model

Discipline: General
Method family: not specified
Design: not specified
Research stage: Data acquisition
Authors: e2er authors (Software, Methodology)
Usage: not used in published research yet · templates that can use it: 8
Source: e2er repository · src/modules/data/sources/noaa.py · @d8fd8ab
Record: connector:noaa · JSON

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