NCDC ISD WebService

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Needs a better Description ASOS values retrieval is hosted by NCDC A Catalog of services is hosted in a database at SDSC.

ONLY DATA FROM 2005 to present is available, presently

NCDC Has two services:

ISH:
Network Code:NCDCISH
Vocabulary:NCDCISH

ISD:
Network Code:NCDCISD
Vocabulary:NCDCISD

Status¶

July 2008. NCDC:

We are now using the WaterML service that returns the values a WaterML. This service add Site and Variable information from the CUAHSI database of NCDC Sites

643 stations with data since 2005.

Notes about the information in the database:

Available Information (sites with data since 2005)
- 13k sites in the ISH metadatabase
- 11k sites in the ISD metadatabase
Overall Dataset (not fully exposed)
- 22k Distinct sites
- 2045 NCDC sites
- 643 NCDC Sites in ISD and ISH

Simple Example¶

Input Parameters¶

Site code example: NetworkName:SiteCode

Variable example: NetworkName:Variable

Example¶

Site	Variable	Begin	End
NCDCISH:72584523225	NCDCISH:CIG	2008-01-01	2008-03-01
NCDCISH:72584523225	NCDCISH:TMP	2008-01-01	2008-01-10
NCDCISH:01089099999 DOES NOT WORK IN ISD	NCDCISH:DEW	2005-08-01	2007-12-31

Site	Variable	Begin	End
NCDCISD:72584523225	NCDCISD:CIG	2008-01-01	2008-03-01
NCDCISD:72584523225	NCDCISD:TMP	2008-01-01	2008-01-10

ERRORS¶

QUIRK Not all variables in the Series work

Site	Variable	Begin	End
NCDCISD:72584523225	NCDCISD:WG1	2008-01-01	2008-03-01