Dataset

Climate & historical weather records

Free & Open Data API CSV NetCDF 1 source

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.

Dataset card

Climate & historical weather records is listed on the provider website by NOAA NCEI.

The data

The source tags it with weather, climate and stations.

Documentation & references 2
  1. NOAA NCEI/Climate & historical weather records: listing on the provider website
  2. NOAA NCEI: official website

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