Dear Gordon, My name is Jon Pollak, I am the User Support Specialist for the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS) (http://cuahsi.org/his.aspx). Your email was forwarded to me by my colleague who thought we might be able to solve your data needs. The CUAHSI HIS is a federated system of data sources tied together by common web services (WaterOneFlow) and common strand of XML (WaterML). Data in this system can be accessed through HydroDesktop- an open source GIS enabled software client (http://cuahsi.org/HydroDesktop.aspx) - in addition to other clients that can interact with WaterOneFlow and WaterML.
A couple of the data sources registered in our catalog, I believe, fit your criteria. They are gridded data products that have been converted to time series data in order to be publishable in CUAHSI HIS (which currently only handles time series data). The data publisher, John Mcenery (University of Texas - Arlington), has published Multi-sensor Precipitation Estimates from the NWS West Gulf River Forecast Center: Hourly Estimates - http://hiscentral.cuahsi.org/pub_network.aspx?n=190 Daily Estimates - http://hiscentral.cuahsi.org/pub_network.aspx?n=189 I was able to successfully download precipitation values today with a date range of 12/17/12 - 1/17/13 in HydroDesktop. HydroDesktop allows you to export to common files types (like .csv), allows you to graph the values or look at them in table format, and allows you to perform analysis with an R plugin. I'd be more than happy to assist you with seeing if the tools and data available with CUAHSI HIS fit your needs. If you would like any further information, please contact me at your convenience. Cheers, Jon _________________________________________________ Jonathan Pollak User Support Specialist CUAHSI 196 Boston Ave, Suite 3800 Medford, MA 02155 e: [email protected] p: +1.339.221.5403 f: +1.202.777.7308 w: www.cuahsi.org _________________________________________________ Kayla Berry Communications and Outreach Specialist CUAHSI 196 Boston Ave, Suite 3800 Medford, MA 02155 e: [email protected] p: +1.339.221.5402 f: +1.202.777.7308 w: www.cuahsi.org________________________________________ From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [[email protected]] on behalf of Gordon Lane [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 2:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Weather data services Hi folks, Wondering if anyone here knows of a good (preferably U.S. government) source for XML or some sort of webservice weather data. My specific requirement is to get the most recent 30 days of precip data for a single station, with data including the day prior to the request. I can get this from GHCND data on the NOAA ftp site, but it requires downloading a huge file every day, which includes data back to 1941 (and a fair bit of data processing to make it usable). I've also tried the GHCND data from NCDC Web Services site, but it has a 2 day reporting lag. I don't need *todays* data, but I do need *yesterday's* data (relative to the date of the report). I've spent a good chunk of time with a few other sites (all very confusing), only to discover they weren't returning the data I needed. Thus, I come to you, hoping you know exactly which site/service will work. Ideally, I'll be able to use Excel to pull and process the data. But if necessary I can use R to do it. Oh, and it should be free. :) Thanks for your time, Gordon
