Acknowledgements
Smarter Weather sources data from the following parties, as acknowledged below. Developers building on the Smarter Weather APIs and MCP servers are expected to preserve and pass through these attributions in any end-user-facing product, and to comply with the upstream licenses (for example, the CC BY 4.0 attribution for ECMWF data and the ODbL attribution for OpenStreetMap). Each product’s source, license and attribution text are also returned by GET /v1/catalog in its source object.
Weather data
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS)
Observations, forecasts, model output, radar, satellite and alerts.
Data provided by NOAA/NWS
License: Public domain (U.S. Government work). Terms
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) AirNow
Air quality observations and forecasts.
Air quality data provided by EPA AirNow
License: Public domain (U.S. Government work). Terms
NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT)
Soil moisture analyses.
Data provided by NASA SPoRT
License: Public domain (U.S. Government work). Terms
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
AIFS AI model forecasts.
Based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). © ECMWF, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source: www.ecmwf.int. Values regridded and quantized by Smarter Weather; ECMWF accepts no liability.
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Terms
Map, reference data and distribution
U.S. Census Bureau
Boundaries, places, and population and housing counts.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER/Line, decennial census, American Community Survey).
License: Public domain (U.S. Government work). Terms
Overture Maps Foundation
Places and building footprints.
Overture Maps Foundation, overturemaps.org. Places data available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
License: Community Data License Agreement Permissive, Version 2.0 (CDLA-Permissive-2.0). Terms
© OpenStreetMap contributors, Overture Maps Foundation. Available under the Open Database License.
License: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Terms
OpenStreetMap contributors
Map and geographic reference data.
© OpenStreetMap contributors. Available under the Open Database License.
License: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Terms
NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) on AWS
Bulk distribution of NOAA datasets.
NOAA data accessed through the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) program on AWS.
Smarter Weather is built on the open source libraries listed below. Thank you to everyone who writes and maintains them.
sheetsjs/bz2
A JavaScript library for bzip2 compression and decompression, licensed under the MIT License. GitHub
deck.gl
A WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets, licensed under the MIT License. GitHub
@emotion/react
A performant and flexible CSS-in-JS library designed for styling applications quickly, licensed under the MIT License. GitHub
luma.gl
A comprehensive suite for high-performance WebGL and WebGPU operations, licensed under the MIT License. GitHub
@mui/material
React components that implement Google's Material Design, licensed under the MIT License. GitHub
MapLibre GL
An open-source library for rendering maps using WebGL. Fork of Mapbox GL JS, licensed under BSD-3-Clause. GitHub
@turf/turf
A modular geospatial engine for advanced geospatial analysis, licensed under the MIT License. GitHub
@hootalex/moon-phases-variable-font
A lunar phase open source font. GitHub
date-fns
A toolset for manipulating JavaScript dates, licensed under the MIT License. GitHub
Chart.js
A JavaScript charting library. GitHub
Skycons
A public domain weather glyph library. GitHub