USDA NRCS Climate Data Tools, Networks

FunTangerine1097 · 2025-02-04T04:27:35.448Z

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/conservation-basics/natural-resource-concerns/soil/climate-data-tools

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/wcc/home/climateSupport/fieldOfficeGuide/climateDataNetworks/

selflesssloth · 2025-02-06T13:35:17.059Z

FunTangerine1097:

Climate Data Tools | Natural Resources Conservation Service

Although I’m a “newbie”, I’m currently looking into the first one. I’ll post how I did it here, feedback is much appreaciated xD

I used wget -m -p -E -k -np https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/conservation-basics/natural-resource-concerns/soil/climate-data-tools as a starting point. (as suggested by @markwyner)

Henry Dataset
For the first entry in the list the “Henry”-Database I also scraped the website via wget -m -p -E -k -np http://soilmap2-1.lawr.ucdavis.edu/henry/ and as there is no convenient way to download the whole dataset at once (besides maybe via R) I am now downloading the dataset manually via looping via for i in `seq 1 2000`; do wget https://soilmap2-1.lawr.ucdavis.edu/henry/get_sensor_graph_data.php?sensors=$i; done (2000 as the website shows ~1600 sensors and it looks like they are numbered sequentially) I got the associated data for sensors via wget https://soilmap2-1.lawr.ucdavis.edu/henry/get_sensors.php

Droughtmonitor
for i in `seq 2000 2025`; do wget https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/data/shapefiles_m//$i\_USDM_M.zip ; done

selflesssloth · 2025-02-06T22:16:33.057Z

APIs (or dynamic views) I found on the way (and did not yet crawl)
https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdbRestApi/swagger-ui/index.html
https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/reports/SelectUpdateReport.html
https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/woa/REGCLIM/read-woa.html
https://data.noaa.gov/onestop/

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