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McDizzy
McDizzy

Reputation: 239

How do I get access to the noaa rest api of the gfs data

I am interested in getting the GFS forecast data for Europe which is available for free from the following website: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs

According this site NOAA provides rest APIs for data access. I want to get access to the GFS 004 (0.5º) data (from here, but how do I know the dataset name (which is described as dataset parameter)?

Or is there another way to get access to the GFS data over API?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3418

Answers (3)

Alejandro Martínez
Alejandro Martínez

Reputation: 1

Most NOAA's models including GFS are available for free with the https://gribstream.com/ API.

Upvotes: 0

jeremyh
jeremyh

Reputation: 5301

The GFS data is now freely available on Amazon AWS S3 under NOAA's Open Data Dissemination Program: https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-gfs-bdp-pds/

You can see all the publicly available datasets here: https://www.noaa.gov/nodd/datasets

You could write a simple API style query to pull the data down programmatically from AWS or use one of the libraries like boto3 (python).

Upvotes: 0

user9396820
user9396820

Reputation: 135

You can use other services that give you access to GFS data.

This one for example gives you access to GFS and more:

https://weacast.github.io/weacast-docs/

Upvotes: 1

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