Comment by beklein

10 days ago

As far as I can tell, they say: "Mission control and data distribution are managed by EUMETSAT." They have published their own blog post here: https://www.eumetsat.int/features/see-earths-atmosphere-neve...

There they say that: "Observations made by MTG-S1 will feed into data products that support national weather services …". So I guess there will be no simple, publicly available REST API or so... but if anybody finds anything, let us know here :)

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jcattle  10 days ago

https://user.eumetsat.int/api-definitions/data-store-downloa...

  • jahller  10 days ago

    nice find. so you need a client_id to access the API

    • Alexander-Barth  10 days ago

      For the datasets, I tried to access (like the full disc image in visible wavelength, MTG 0 degree), it is sufficient to register at eumetsat to get a username and password. The eumdac python tool is probably the easiest way to access the data:

      https://pypi.org/project/eumdac/

      (If you do not want to use python, the --debug option is quite useful to see exactly the request made. The output is either some JSON metadata or a large zip with the netcdf data)

davedx  10 days ago

Most weather data isn't generally available by easy to query REST API's (at least not at the original sources). One side project I had I wanted to use NOMADs data, and it was quite a grind downloading and processing the raw datasets into something usable at an application level (or viable to expose via an API).

  • Gigachad  10 days ago

    That’s why you have service/products that have the sole purpose of taking all these region specific data sources and processing them in to a generic json api.

    The government orgs probably do it intentionally so they don’t have ten million devices pinging their servers to update weather widgets.