Monthly and Annual API
The Monthly and Annual microservice API returns time series analysis ready data responses for solar and meteorological data to be used directly by applications.
- Provides parameters by year; the annual and each month's average, maximum, and/or minimum values.
- All parameters are available in their original sources spatial resolution.
- Solar parameters are derived from NASA's GEWEX SRB R4-IP archive (Jan. 1, 1984 – Dec. 31, 2000), CERES SYN1deg archive (Jan. 1, 2001 – to within a few months of real time), and NASA’s CERES FLASHFlux project (End of CERES – to within about 7-days of real time).
- Meteorological parameters are derived from the NASA's GMAO MERRA-2 assimilation model (Jan. 1, 1981 to the previous year).
Formats | Available | Notes |
NetCDF | Yes | |
ASCII | Yes | |
ICASA | No | This will be available in a future release. |
JSON | Yes | |
CSV | Yes | |
Limits
Parameters
- A maximum of 20 parameters can currently be requested in one submission.
- This limits does not apply if more parameters are needed by the application to construct any on the fly parameters.
Request Structure
- The request arguments can be in any order after the question mark.
- A single parameter can be requested or a list of Parameters can be selected, with one of the following list separators: ',' or '%2C'.
Examples
To help construct and test your API requests please use the API Pages for the POWER Monthly API and POWER Manager API.
Point
Regional
Below are examples to return a monthly data for a region on a 0.5 x 0.5 degree grid.
| /api/temporal/monthly/regional?latitude-min=50&latitude-max=55&longitude-min=50&longitude-max=55¶meters=T2M&community=SB&start=2016&end=2017&format=CSV
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