Government scientific institutions collect a lot of data, and much of this data is available on the internet. Our example uses some data collected by the U.S. Coast Guard's ship Polar Star. This ship supports scientific and ice escort missions in the arctic and antarctic.The CSV dataset contains…
This pipe takes RSS feeds from the USGS, the National Weather Service, EPA, and other sources and filters them for articles related to water-resources issues.
Enter a city name and radius to search and get buoys that give weather and water information. Uses data from the National Data Buoy Center. Great for tracking a hurricane since it gives early indicators, based on wave height, of where the storm may go.
Filters the Atlantic Basin NOAA RSS feed to include only the English Forecast / Advisory items. Scrapes the link to present the text of the Advisory in the description.
this pipe fetches metar data from http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations depending on the input ICAO location code.
The returned metar dataset is processed (not all datafields) and presented in a human readable form.