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National Centers for Environmental Information
  1. NCEI Search, Discovery, & Data Access
  2. Documentation
  • API Documentation
    • Data Service Order Service Search Service Support Service
  • Order Status

NCEI Access APIs User Documentation

View user documentation on how to use our various APIs.

  • Data Service Documentation

    Access Data Service

    Overview

    The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Access Data Service provides a RESTful application programming interface (API) to access and subset data based on the set of parameters to the v1 URL. Depending on the dataset the API can format the data as comma-separated values ( CSV specification ), space-separated values (SSV), JavaScript Object Notation ( JSON specification ), Portable Document Format ( PDF standard documentation ) and Network Common Data Form ( NetCDF documentation ). The NCEI Access Data Service is only available via HTTP Strict Transport Security ( HSTS specification ) following Federal government HTTPS policy .

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  • Order Service Documentation

    Access Order Service

    Overview

    The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Common Access Order Service provides a RESTful application programming interface (API) to retrieve information about previous orders based on a set of parameters to the /v1 or /v1/airs URLs, respectively. The NCEI Common Access Order Service is only available via HTTP Strict Transport Security ( HSTS specification ) following Federal government HTTPS policy . Requests use HTTP 1.1 GET method specification request and results are formatted as JavaScript Object Notation ( JSON specification ) that contains a results array property.

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  • Search Service Documentation

    Access Search Service

    Overview

    The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Common Access Search Service provides a RESTful application programming interface (API) to discover datasets and data based on a set of parameters to the v1/datasets or v1/data URLs, respectively. The NCEI Common Access Search Service is only available via HTTP Strict Transport Security ( HSTS specification ) following Federal Government HTTPS Policy . Requests use HTTP 1.1 GET method specification request and results are formatted as JavaScript Object Notation ( JSON specification ) that contains a results array property.

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  • Support Service Documentation

    Access Support Service

    Overview

    The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Common Access Support Service provides a RESTful application programming interface (API) to discover metadata and attributes about datasets based on a set of parameters to the /v4/datasets URL. The NCEI Common Access Support Service is only available via HTTP Strict Transport Security ( HSTS specification ) following Federal government HTTPS policy . Requests use HTTP 1.1 GET method specification request and results are formatted as JavaScript Object Notation ( JSON specification ) that contains a results array property.

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