Data Guide

The Weather and Climate Toolkit supports Gridded and Radial data types in a variety of binary formats including NetCDF, GRIB, HDF, GINI, AREA, NEXRAD, 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/.

Below are some example archive links and THREDDS Data Servers (TDS) which serve a variety of weather and climate data supported in this Toolkit. To display THREDDS data in the Weather and Climate Toolkit, drag and drop the THREDDS catalog links onto the Toolkit or copy/paste the URL to the 'catalog.xml' or 'catalog.html' file into the 'THREDDS' tab on the Data Selector or copy/paste the direct OPeNDAP access URL into the 'Single File/URL' tab. For more information on THREDDS, please refer to UCAR/Unidata.

Station Data

• NCEI Weather and Climate General TDS - NCEI Global Climate at a Glance dataset
• NCEI Weather and Climate General TDS - NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly(GHCN-M) Gridded Products.
• GeoIDE TDS - a comprehensive catalog of CF-Gridded NOAA products.
• NOAA/ESRL TDS - products produced or used by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory's (ESRL) Physical Sciences Division (PSD).
• NOAA/PFEL TDS - products produced or used by NOAA's Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (PFEL).

• NOAA/NCEI NOMADS TDS - historical numerical weather and climate models.
• NOAA/NCEP NOMADS TDS - real-time and short-term archive.
• UCAR/Unidata TDS - real-time (and last 30 days) of numerical weather models.
• GeoIDE TDS - a comprehensive catalog of CF-Gridded NOAA products.
• NOAA/ESRL TDS - products produced or used by NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory's (ESRL) Physical Sciences Division (PSD).
• NOAA/PFEL TDS - products produced or used by NOAA's Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (PFEL).

• NOAA/NCEI NEXRAD Inventory and Archive Access - NEXRAD Level-II, NEXRAD/TDWR Level-III data.
• NOAA/NWS Gateway FTP - 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.

• NOAA/NCEI Weather and Climate TDS - NOAA/NCEI Climate Data Record (CDR) program data.
• NOAA/NCEI Weather and Climate General TDS - ISCCP, GRISAT, HURSAT and more.
• UCAR/Unidata TDS - real-time (and last 30 days) of regional and national composites.
• GeoIDE TDS - a comprehensive catalog of CF-Gridded NOAA products.
• NOAA/PFEL TDS - products produced or used by NOAA's Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory (PFEL).

• NOAA/NCEI NOMADS TDS - NOAA/NCEI Paleoclimatology datasets