Alternative data datasets

N NASA Earthdata

NASA's earth-observation archives spanning several decades, MODIS and VIIRS land products, GPM precipitation, GRACE water storage, SRTM elevation and more than a dozen mission archives, all searchable through the Earthdata Search CMR API.

N NOAA NCEI

The largest climate and weather archive on the planet: GHCN daily station observations, Global Hourly, satellite and radar archives, paleoclimatology reconstructions and ocean records, the standard ground truth for weather-driven models.

U Understory

Surface weather station network measuring rainfall and wind conditions at neighborhood resolution.