Introduction
Welcome to SNAP’s data API, your gateway to seamless connectivity between our backend data and your front-end applications. With this versatile tool, you can access and manipulate the wealth of data we offer, and tailor it to suit your unique needs. You can also integrate the API into your own applications or scripts using the documentation outlined below for each of the endpoints offered. Whether you’re looking to highlight features of the data or to harness our data for custom analyses, this API is your one-stop shop for all of SNAP’s data offerings. For further details and inquiries, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at uaf-snap-data-tools@alaska.edu. We’re here to make climate data easier to access and understand!
The code is hosted on GitHub. Instructions on how to use each data endpoint is given below.
Service categories
- Climate Indicators
- Climate Protection from Spruce Beetles
- Degree Days
- Digital Elevation Models (DEMs)
- Flammability and Vegetation Type (ALFRESCO)
- Geology
- Hydrology
- Landfast Sea Ice
- Permafrost
- Physical and Administrative Boundary Polygons
- Physiography
- Sea Ice Concentration
- Snowfall Equivalent
- Temperature and Precipitation
- Wet Days Per Year
- Wildfire
Rasdaman raster database
This tool uses the rasdaman array database management system. This technology enables our team to store, analyze and visualize the 5+ TB of climate data that are presented through this interface. We wish to thank the rasdaman project and team for their inspiration and support, and for providing this important innovation in data technology.
Peter Baumann, email: p.baumann@jacobs-university.de, & website: rasdaman.org. (2018). rasdaman - raster data manager (9.5.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1163021
License
Unless otherwise specified by source providers, all data available through this tool is available through the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC by 4.0).