Drought indices timeseries outside conus

Interested in pulling drought timeseries data outside of the continental US? Follow this article to learn how using the Climate Engine API.

  1. Reach out to the Climate Engine team through this support site for an API key.
  2. Head to the Climate Engine Swagger Page at api.climateengine.org.
  3. Authorize with your API Key and use the home/validate_key endpoint to verify the key is working.
  4. Navigate to the timeseries/standard_index endpoints. For this example, we will use timeseries/standard_index/coordinates and a random point.
  5. Fill out the desired parameters and click execute. Use Endpoint Parameters for reference.

  1. Review the Response Body. If you want to download a json of the data, click the download button.

  1. If you are interested in accesing the data programmatically, you can send requests in scripts.
# Endpoint
endpoint = 'timeseries/standard_index/coordinates'
# Set up parameters for API call
Params = {
  'dataset': 'CHIRPS_DAILY',
  'variable': 'spi',
  'area_reducer': 'mean',
  'start_date': '2023-01-01',
  'end_date': '2023-12-31',
  'start_year': '1991',
  'end_year': '2020',
  'accumulation': '90',
  'distribution': 'nonparameteric', 
  'coordinates': '[[-75.0479, 3.42]]'
}

# Send request to the API
r1 = requests.get(root_url + endpoint, params = params1, headers=headers, verify=False)
response = r1.json()
  1. You can then process and plot the output.