NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the United States scientific and regulatory agency within the Department of Commerce charged with monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, managing fishing and protection of marine mammals, and providing weather, climate, space weather, and ecosystem forecasts and warnings. NOAA's developer surface spans six line offices — the National Weather Service (NWS), the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) including the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), the National Ocean Service (NOS) including Tides & Currents (CO-OPS), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS / NOAA Fisheries), the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), and the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO). NOAA exposes free, open APIs at api.weather.gov, services.swpc.noaa.gov, api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov, ncei.noaa.gov/access, ERDDAP servers across line offices, the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), and bulk forecast model output (GFS, GEFS, HRRR, GOES) through the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) program on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the way a machine reads it — 46 machine-readable artifacts across 24 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scores 47.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 24
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) Data Service
SWPC publishes solar wind, geomagnetic, X-ray flux, aurora forecast, radiation storm, and coronal mass ejection products through a static-file data service organised by format. ...
CO-OPS Data Retrieval API (Tides & Currents)
The Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) Data API returns water-level observations, tide predictions, currents, meteorological observations, and o...
CO-OPS Metadata API (MDAPI v1)
The CO-OPS Metadata API exposes station inventory, harmonic constituents, NOS PORTS station lists, flood thresholds, and high/low water station catalogs. Supports radius and bou...
CO-OPS Derived Product API (DPAPI v0.1)
Derived products computed from historical CO-OPS water-level records — sea level trends, annual mean sea level reports, top-10 water levels, and extreme event summaries — expose...
NCEI Access Data Service (v1)
The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Access Data Service is the modern, token-free replacement for the legacy CDO web service. It exposes daily summaries (G...
NCEI Climate Data Online (CDO) v2 API
The legacy Climate Data Online v2 REST API exposes datasets, datatypes, stations, locations, data categories, and observation records. Requires a free token from ncei.noaa.gov/c...
National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) Web Data Service
NDBC publishes real-time meteorological and oceanographic observations (the last 45 days) and historical archives from a global network of over 900 moored buoys, drifting buoys,...
NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP Server
ERDDAP (Environmental Research Division Data Access Program) is a NOAA-funded, open-source server that unifies access to gridded (`griddap`) and tabular (`tabledap`) scientific ...
NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD)
NODD is NOAA's bulk-data dissemination program, providing free, low-latency public access to tens of terabytes per day of forecast model output, satellite imagery, radar, and ob...
NOAA Fisheries One Stop Shop (FOSS) ODS / ORDS
The Fisheries One Stop Shop (FOSS) Operational Data Store, hosted on Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS), exposes US commercial fisheries landings, foreign trade, fishing gear, and...
NOAA InPort Metadata Catalog
InPort is the authoritative metadata repository for NOAA Fisheries and the National Ocean Service and the NOAA-wide platform for data management plans. Catalog records describe ...
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Alerts API
The Alerts API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 8 operation(s) for alerts.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aviation API
The Aviation API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 7 operation(s) for aviation.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Glossary API
The Glossary API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 1 operation(s) for glossary.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Gridpoints API
The Gridpoints API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 4 operation(s) for gridpoints.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Icons API
The Icons API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 3 operation(s) for icons.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Offices API
The Offices API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 8 operation(s) for offices.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Points API
The Points API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 3 operation(s) for points.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Products API
The Products API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 9 operation(s) for products.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Radar API
The Radar API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 8 operation(s) for radar.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Radio API
The Radio API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 1 operation(s) for radio.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Stations API
The Stations API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 7 operation(s) for stations.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Thumbnails API
The Thumbnails API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 1 operation(s) for thumbnails.
NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Zones API
The Zones API from NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — 6 operation(s) for zones.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
weather.gov API
OPEN COLLECTIONRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Noaa Gov Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFeatures 14
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Noaa Gov Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 1
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
NWS Alert
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 8
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
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Documentation 7
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 12
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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