Alternative data datasets

O Open-Meteo

A freely accessible weather service that merges outputs from national meteorological agencies with reanalysis datasets, supplying hourly forecasts, historical readings, air-quality measurements and future climate projections on a global scale without requiring authentication keys.

G Google Earth Engine

A multi-petabyte catalogue of analysis-ready geospatial datasets, Landsat, Sentinel, MODIS, DEMs, land-cover classifications, population grids and climate reanalysis, hosted for server-side computation, free for research and non-commercial use.

P Pelmorex Weather Source

Global atmospheric variables from the high-resolution ERA5 reanalysis, mapped to custom locations for downstream analysis.