WEATHER

 

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Weather Station

Goddard Space Flight Center Weather Station and Partner Sensors

^Weather station and partner sensors as of 14 March 2024

 

ACTIVE SENSORS WITH DATA AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE:

  • Alcor OMEA 8C All-Sky Camera
  • Campbell Scientific (CS)-106 Barometric Sensor
  • Campbell Scientific (CS)-125 Present Weather Sensor
  • Campbell Scientific (CS)-320 Digital Thermopile Pyranometer
  • Campbell Scientific (CS)-CSAT3B 3-D Sonic Anemometer
  • Met-One Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge
  • OTT Hydromet Pluvio2 Weighing Bucket Precipitation Gauge
  • Viasala CL61 Polarized Ceilometer
  • Vaisala HMP55A Temperature/RH Probe
  • Young 05103L Vane Anemometer
     

INACTIVE SENSORS WITH DATA AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE:

  • Viasala CL51 Ceilometer
     

ACTIVE PARTNER SENSORS WITH DATA HOSTED ELSEWHERE:

 

INACTIVE PARTNER SENSORS WITH DATA HOSTED ELSEWHERE:

  • None

*For historical data and image downloads, please scroll towards the bottom of this page

Current Weather

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Current Weather Condiations Chart at NASA GSFC Building 33
Current Weather Conditions Analysis Chart at NASA GSFC Building 33
Animation showing current sky and cloud conditions at NASA GSFC Building 33Animation showing current sky and cloud conditions at NASA GSFC Building 33

Weather Station Data Availability

DATASET AVAILABILITY: 

  • Hosted and downloadable on this website:
    • All-sky camera hemispheric images (All-Sky_Image.tar.gz) - 17 Apr 2023+
    • All-sky camera unwrapped images (All-Sky_Unwrap.tar.gz) - 17 Apr 2023+
    • CL51 Ceilometer Data - 12 Oct 2023 - 05 Dec 2023
      • Level 2 data (CL51_L2_Ceil.nc)
    • CL61 Ceilometer Data - 03 Jan 2024+
      • Level 2 data (CL61_L2_Ceil.nc)
    • Meteorology data (Meteo.dat) - 30 Jan 2021+
    • Present Weather Sensor (Present_Weather.dat) - 30 Jan 2021+
    • Pluvio Rain Gauge Data (Precip_Pluvio.dat) - 30 Jan 2021+
    • Public file, all data, same time interval (All_Data_Common_Time.dat) - 30 Jan 2021+
    • Pyranometer data (Pyranometer.dat) - 30 Jan 2021+
    • CS Sonic anemometer Data (Wind_Sonic.dat) - 30 Jan 2021+ 
    • Young prop anemometer data (Wind_Young_Prop.dat) - 30 Jan 2021+

A comprensive data description document is under development, but if you have any questions, please send an email to stephen.d.nicholls@nasa.gov.

Data Updates and Download Instructions

DATA UPDATE CYCLE:

  • 1-minute updates
    • Near-real-time "Quicklook" imagery
  • 5-minute updates
    • Near-real-time weather station data (.dat format)
    • Near-real-time Ceilometer Data (.nc format, L2 only)
  • Hourly updates
    • Historical Quicklook imagery archive
  • Daily updates (updated at 0010 UTC each night):
    • Daily numerical station data (all times for 1 day) in .dat format
    • All-sky imagery  (all images for 1 day) in tar.gz format
    • CL51/CL61 ceilometer data (all times for one day) in .nc format (L2 only)
  • Monthly updates (manually completed)
    • Tipping bucket rain gauges (.txt format)

DATA DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS:

  • Quicklook Plots
  • Numerical Datasets and All-Sky Imagery
    • Direct download (i.e., wget, curl, etc.):  
      • All datasets are stored in a common data website data structure
        • https://har.gsfc.nasa.gov/storm/WEATHER/ASCII_WX_STATION_DATA_HISTORICAL/
        • YYYY/YYYYMMDD/YYYYMMDD_(dataset name) 
        • Example: 20240214_Meteo.dat
        • For associated "dataset_name" see "Dataset Availability" section
    • >> Python-based Weather Station Data Download Script  << 

USER NOTE: This website's design does not permit directory navigation. Due to the "ASCII_WX_STATION_DATA_HISTORICAL" section being more than two sub directories deep, it is only possible to download these data if the exact directory location and file are specified (the links below only show which days data are avaialble). For example: 

https://har.gsfc.nasa.gov/storm/WEATHER/ASCII_WX_STATION_DATA_HISTORICAL/2024/20240220/20240220_Meteo.dat

Historical Weather

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