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
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Jonathan Pollak
User Support Specialist
CUAHSI
196 Boston Ave, Suite 3800
Medford, MA 02155
e: jpol...@cuahsi.org
p: +1.339.221.5403
f: +1.202.777.7308
w: www.cuahsi.org
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Kayla Berry Communications and Outreach Specialist CUAHSI 196 Boston Ave,
Suite 3800 Medford, MA 02155 e: kbe...@cuahsi.org p: +1.339.221.5402 f:
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From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news
[ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] on behalf of Gordon Lane [gordon.l...@maine.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 2:27 PM
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
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
