NOAA Historical Weather Connector
Intro
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is responsible for preserving, monitoring, assessing, and providing public access to climate and historical weather data and information. Use Domo's NOAA Historical Weather connector to pull historical weather and climate data from around the world. To learn more about the NOAA Historical Weather API, visit their page (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2).
You connect to your NOAA Historical Weather account in the Data Center. This topic discusses the fields and menus that are specific to the NOAA Historical Weather connector user interface. General information for adding DataSets, setting update schedules, and editing DataSet information is discussed in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.
Prerequisites
To connect to your NOAA Historical Weather account and create a DataSet, you must have an NOAA CDO token. For information about obtaining a token, visit this page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/token
Connecting to Your NOAA Historical Weather Account
This section enumerates the options in the Credentials and Details panes in the NOAA Historical Weather Connector page. The components of the other panes in this page, Scheduling and Name & Describe Your DataSet, are universal across most connector types and are discussed in greater length in Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.
Credentials Pane
This pane contains fields for entering credentials to connect to your NOAA Historical Weather account. The following table describes what is needed for each field:
Field |
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Token |
Enter your NOAA CDO token. For information about obtaining a token, visit this page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/token |
Once you have entered valid NOAA Historical Weather credentials, you can use the same account any time you go to create a new NOAA Historical Weather DataSet. You can manage connector accounts in the Accounts tab in the Data Center. For more information about this tab, see Managing User Accounts for Connectors.
Details Pane
This pane contains a primary Reports menu, along with various other menus which may or may not appear depending on the report type you select.
Menu |
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Report |
Select the NOAA Historical Weather report you want to run. The following reports are available:
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Days Offset |
Enter the number of days back you want to end the report at. Use 0 for today. Combine with Days to create a range of days. For example, if you entered 14 for Days and 7 for Days Offset, the report would include data for a two-week period, ending 7 days before today. |
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Days |
Enter the number of days to run the report for. Combine with Days Offset to create a range of days. For example, if you entered 14 for Days and 7 for Days Offset, the report would include data for a two-week period, ending 7 days before today. |
Other Panes
For information about the remaining sections of the connector interface, including how to configure scheduling, retry, and update options, see Adding a DataSet Using a Data Connector.