NOAA

NOAA provides a lot of weather data, across many different websites under different project names. The R package rnoaa accesses many of these, including: NOAA NCDC climate data, using the NCDC API version 2 GHCND FTP data ISD FTP data Severe weather data docs are at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdiws/ Sea ice data NOAA buoy data Tornadoes! Data from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center HOMR - Historical Observing Metadata Repository - from NOAA NCDC Storm data - from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) rnoaa used to provide access to ERDDAP servers, but a separate package rerddap focuses on just those data sources....

ERDDAP is a data server that gives you a simple, consistent way to download subsets of gridded and tabular scientific datasets in common file formats and make graphs and maps. Besides it’s own RESTful interface, much of which is designed based on OPeNDAP, ERDDAP can act as an OPeNDAP server and as a WMS server for gridded data. ERDDAP is a powerful tool - in a world of heterogeneous data, it’s often hard to combine data and serve it through the same interface, with tools for querying/filtering/subsetting the data....