Data are stored in NetCDF format; each CDR is in an individual blob container in the following storage account:
https://noaacdr.blob.core.windows.net
NetCDF structure and file naming conventions vary slightly across data sets; see below for documentation of individual CDRs, along with links to their original documentation. However, most CDRs use one of the following naming conventions:
noaacdr.blob.core.windows.net/[product]/data/[year]/[filename].nc noaacdr.blob.core.windows.net/[product]/data/[year]/[month]/[filename].nc
product is a short name for one of the CDRs, and also specifies the blob container name. A list of products and their associated container names is below.
For example, the following NetCDF file contains information from the "Leaf Area Index" (leaf-area-index-fapar) product for January 1st, 2003:
The highlighted text indicates the date, and occurs in most NetCDF file names.
Parentheses indicate product short names, which correspond to container names as per above.
- AVHRR Aerosol Optical Thickness (aerosol-optical-thickness)
- Cloud Properties - ISCCP (cloud-properties-isccp)
- Extended AVHRR Polar Pathfinder (polar-pathfinder-extended)
- Hydrological Properties (hydrological-properties)
- Ocean Heat Fluxes (ocean-heatflux)
- Ocean Near-Surface Atmospheric Properties (ocean-nearsurface-atmos-profiles)
- Outgoing Longwave Radiation - Daily (outgoing-longwave-radiation-daily)
- Outgoing Longwave Radiation - Monthly (outgoing-longwave-radiation-monthly)
- Ozone - ESRL (ozone-esrl)
- Precipitation - CMORPH (precip-cmorph)
- Precipitation - GPCP Daily (precip-gpcp-daily)
- Precipitation - GPCP Monthly (precip-gpcp-monthly)
- Precipitation - NEXRAD QPE (precip-nexrad-qpe)
- Precipitation - PERSIANN (precip-persiann)
- Solar Spectral Irradiance (solar-spectral-irradiance)
- Total Solar Irradiance (total-solar-irradiance)
- Geostationary IR Channel Brightness Temperature - GridSat-B1 (gridsat-b1)
- Mean Layer Temperature - NOAA (mean-layer-temp)
- Mean Layer Temperature - RSS (mean-layer-temp-rss)
- Mean Layer Temperature - UAH (mean-layer-temp-uah)
- Mean Layer Temperature - UCAR (Lower Stratosphere) (mean-layer-temp-lower-strat)
- Mean Layer Temperature - UCAR (Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere) (mean-layer-temp-upper-trop-lower-strat)
- SSM/I(S) Brightness Temperature - CSU (microwave-imager-brit-temp-csu)
- SSMI/S Brightness Temperature - RSS (microwave-imager-brit-temp-rss)
- Global Ocean Heat Content (ocean-heat-content)
- Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature (sea-surface-temp-pathfinder)
- Sea Ice Concentration (sea-ice-concentration)
- Sea Surface Temperature - Optimum Interpolation (sea-surface-temp-optimum-interpolation)
- Sea Surface Temperature - WHOI (sea-surface-temp-whoi)
- Leaf Area Index and FAPAR (leaf-area-index-fapar)
- Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (ndvi)
- Snow Cover Extent (Northern Hemisphere) (snow-cover-ext-north)
- MSU Brightness Temperature - NOAA (msu-brit-temp)
- AVHRR Polar Pathfinder (polar-pathfinder-fcdr)
- HIRS CH12 Brightness Temperature (ir-water-vapor-brit-temp)
- AMSU Brightness Temperature - NOAA (microwave-brit-temp)
- AMSU-B and MHS Brightness Temperature (microwave-humidity-sounder-brit-temp)
- AMSU-A Brightness Temperature (microwave-temp-sounder-brit-temp)
- AVHRR Reflectance - PATMOS-x (patmosx-radiances-and-clouds)