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Sources of weather data

http://www.ecmwf.int/en/research/climate-reanalysis/era-interim A remodel of weather since 1979, based on many many measurements. The resulting dataset contains daily to hourly values around the globe ...
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Sources of weather data

Get the data from BigQuery: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/noaa-gsod Sample query: #standardSQL SELECT name, stn, a.wban, TIMESTAMP(CONCAT(year, '-', mo, '-', da)) date, temp, prcp ...
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NOAA Satellite Data API?

Where are you searching? The NOAA and all of its child departments/organizations provide a plethora of satellite and API datasets, including satellite datasets accessible via API. The list below is a ...
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Dataset of weather as it was *forecast* at the time

We have the data you are asking for in our regional Open Data portal (Basque Country, Spain), so I guess you could have it without purchasing it. I do not know how NOAA works, but here, you could send ...
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Historical weather data

I have written some sample code for directly building a CSV starting with a given date and ending with a given date: https://github.com/joshmalina/pollution/blob/master/notebooks/...
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Wind energy data in India

The MERRA dataset has data for the world from 1979 to date. It updates frequently. You can get the data as HDF or NETCDF. If your GIS package doesn't read those, there will be translation packages ...
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Historical weather forecast API

Have you tried Google BigQuery? GBQ has now loaded climate data worldwide from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) from over 9,000 weather stations. The data includes 2015 and ...
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Data on glaciers

The World Glacier Monitoring Service The World Glacier Monitoring Service hosts database with mainly mass balance, front variation and thickness change data. The main website is: http://wgms.ch/ the ...
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Sources of weather data

There's a good list of weather data sources on this excellent website created by Robin Wilson, which I duplicate here in case that site ever goes away: WorldClim: Climate data for past, present and ...
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Average Monthly temperatures for cities around the world

If there is no well documented API for weatherbase.com, it might be interesting to scrape the information. Here is the list of cities the site contains with their URL. You can select some cities and ...
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Database with monthly climate/weather data by country

Here is a recently updated climate data set from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_3.23/crucy.1506241137.v3.23 It covers 1901-2014, ...
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Database with monthly climate/weather data by country

Have you tried Google BigQuery? GBQ has now loaded climate data worldwide from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) from over 9,000 weather stations. The data includes 2015 and ...
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API for sun radiation / illuminance data?

A great list can be found at: https://www.programmableweb.com/category/solar/api Solcast offers free access to this type of data for researchers and students, which is a great for my research group. ...
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1945 (spring) daily weather Germany

For German daily data, start here at the Deutschewettersdienst website. ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/pub/CDC/observations_germany/climate/daily/kl/historical/ ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/climate_environment/CDC/...
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Historical weather data for Pyrenees Atlantiques

Here you'll find historical weather data near Tarbes between 2010 and 2015. It would probably be a good first approximation of Arlet's data. Météo France won't open any more geographically precise ...
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Extensive Weather or Sea State API?

Check out www.wxtiles.com, it has most of those layers available free with an OpenLayers API. Note that it sits on top of an TMS map tile server, so you can access tiles like so: http://wx.wxtiles.com/...
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Extensive Weather or Sea State API?

I suggest looking into these datasets, most of the parameters you mentioned are available there. I assume you're looking for both — observations and forecasts. NOAA Wave Watch III (NWW3) Ocean Wave ...
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Tagged (non-anonymized) GPS driver trip database

OpenStreetMap hosts GPS Traces that are uploaded by the community. Not all are for driving, but you can probably screen GPS tracks for total distance to find driving ones. Or screen for users that ...
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Data on hurricanes?

NOAA's Hurricane Center has current gis as well as archived hurricane data
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Data on hurricanes?

Wunderground has a quite extensive hurricane archive (since 1851), unfortunately they are a commercial organisation, so you'll probably have to pay for API integration with their historic data. A ...
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Sources of weather data

I recently found this website for downloading weather data: https://rp5.ru/ which is the website of Reliable Prognosis, a company from St-Petersburg. The website is mainly dedicated to weather ...
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Get Historic Temperature Data by GPS and Timestamp Using R

I recommend trying rnoaa https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/rnoaa/ - It's an interface to many different data sources from NOAA. df <- data.frame( id = letters[1:6], time = c("2016-06-01 ...
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Publishing Weather Data under Creative Commons / Peer Production License

try contacting the open science data cloud; at the bottom of this link is a contact email regarding submissions: https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/publicdata/ you also can get free hosting for ...
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Need real time data source for wind direction and weather forecast

You can get wind speed & direction from METAR files, which every open airport should be publishing. I don't know if forecasts are as standardized. I'm used to looking at NOAA's National Weather ...
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Average temperature by country 1990-2012

There is a climate data set from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, here: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/cru_ts_3.23/crucy.1506241137.v3.23 It covers 1901-2014, with ...
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Extreme weather dataset for all countries from 2008 to 2011

Once again a partial answer... The Dartmouth Flood Observatory (now housed at the University of Colorado instead of Dartmouth) maintains a list of large remotely sensed flood events going back to ...
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Historical weather data

For Canada, you can download historical data by city in bulk csv or xml files from Environment & Climate Change Canada. The example provided here uses wget to download all available hourly data ...
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New York City weather data

nyc noaa: http://www.weather.gov/okx/ areas in ny, including some boroughs but i don't see them all: http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/NY_cc_us.html historical nyc noaa data: http://w2.weather.gov/...
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Understanding Precipitation data

This seems to be the same data mentioned at http://shallowsky.com/blog/programming/NOAA-weather.html . In their write up, they also link to NOAA's documentation for the document. Note that this is ...
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