The Weather and Climate Toolkit supports Gridded and Radial data types in a variety of binary formats including NetCDF, GRIB, HDF, GINI, AREA, NEXRAD, GeoTIFF and more.
Note: These files must comply with the Climate-Forecast (CF) conventions to be readable by this toolkit. For more information on the CF-conventions, refer to: PCMDI - http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/.
Data Sources
NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD)
The NODD Program is a coordinated effort to make NOAA data resources accessible through private sector cloud infrastructure with the goal of making data publication more cost effective and sustainable.
The 'NOAA Open Data' tab in the Toolkit's Data Selector provides convenient access to NEXRAD, GOES and Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) NODD datasets. However, many more datasets are available from NODD and are supported in the Toolkit by browsing the cloud storage buckets.
Explore the NODD Dataset listings
Foundational Temperature and Precipitation Datasets, and Drought Indices from Drought.gov
The NIDIS/Drought.gov team process several foundational gridded temperature and precipitation datasets from NOAA and reformat into the Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format for efficient cloud based access and integration into the Climate Engine and Earth Engine platforms.
These datasets are used as the basis for building drought indices and include the full period of record, with daily updates. In additional, multiple drought indicators are processed nightly and available in the COG format.
Weather Radar Data
- NOAA/NCEI NEXRAD Inventory and Archive Access - NEXRAD Level-II, NEXRAD/TDWR Level-III data.
- NOAA/NWS Gateway HTTP - real-time (and last 36 hours) of Level-III NEXRAD and TDWR data.
- UCAR/Unidata TDS - real-time (and last 30 days) of national composites, Level-III NEXRAD and TDWR and Level-II NEXRAD.