Temporal APIs
The Temporal APIs that return user community specific Analysis Ready Data (ARD) products.
| Services | Description |
| Climatology | Provides parameters as climatologies for a pre-defined period with monthly average, maximum, and/or minimum values available. |
| Monthly | Provides parameters by year; the annual and each month's average, maximum, and/or minimum values. |
| Daily | Provides parameters by day with average, maximum, and/or minimum values. |
| Hourly | Provides parameters by hour with average values. |
Spatial
Future Enhancements
At the moment we currently have only implemented the Point spatial option on all the Temporal APIs. We will be adding enhancements in the future.
| Value | Description |
| Point | The Point endpoint returns a time series based on a single latitude and longitude coordinate across the time span requested. |
| Regional | The Regional endpoint returns a time series based on a bounding box of lower left (latitude, longitude) and upper right (latitude, longitude) coordinates across the time span provided. |
| Services | Point | Regional |
| Climatology | Yes | Yes |
| Monthly | Yes | Yes |
| Daily | Yes | Yes |
| Hourly | Yes | No |
Below you will find an overview of the output formats available for the Temporal APIs. All of the Temporal APIs allow for a single output file format to be exported in one request. For more information please reference the specified Temporal APIs pages.
| Services | NetCDF | ASCII | JSON | CSV |
| Climatology | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Monthly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Daily | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hourly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Services | ICASA | EPW | GeoTIFF | Notes |
| Climatology | No | No | No | GeoTIFF will be available in a future release. |
| Monthly | No | No | No | |
| Daily | Yes | No | No | ICASA is available only with the AG community. |
| Hourly | No | Yes | No | |