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  "api_version": "1.1",
  "catalog_id": "uogw",
  "title": "Unified Open Global Weather",
  "subtitle": "Open multi-layer atmospheric commons — ground, marine, upper-air, stratosphere, satellite, near-space",
  "provider": "Aerostratospheric",
  "publisher": "Aerostratospheric, Olney, Illinois",
  "homepage": "https://www.midwestsds.com",
  "data_hub": "https://www.midwestsds.com/portal.html",
  "repository": "https://github.com/Midwest-Stratospheric/Unified-Open-Global-Weather",
  "api_base": "https://midwestsds.com/data/v1",
  "api_docs": "https://www.midwestsds.com/api.html",
  "license_curated": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_note": "Curated indexes and MSDS products under CC BY 4.0. Original agency and project licenses always apply to source observations.",
  "attribution": "Midwest Stratospheric Data Systems (midwestsds.com) — always cite original data providers",
  "contact": "launchcontrol@midwestsds.com",
  "globe_registration": "GO-4VW9B",
  "updated": "2026-09-16",
  "related_repositories": {
    "uogw": "https://github.com/Midwest-Stratospheric/Unified-Open-Global-Weather",
    "msds_data": "https://github.com/Midwest-Stratospheric/msds-data",
    "igdr": "https://github.com/Midwest-Stratospheric/International-Ground-Data-Repository"
  },
  "layer_summary": {
    "ground": "Surface land stations, GLOBE, model-driven dailies, Casey GMC-800 radiation, Casey lightning detector",
    "marine": "Buoys, ships, Argo profiles, coastal",
    "upper_air": "Radiosondes, pilot balloons, GRUAN, CUON",
    "stratospheric": "QBO, ozone sondes, satellite strat products",
    "satellite": "Open NASA/NOAA/Copernicus products (catalog + samples)",
    "flight": "MSDS high-altitude balloon packages"
  },
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    {"id": "msds-kilcasey47", "layer": "ground", "title": "Casey, Illinois Aerostratospheric Fixed Weather Station KILCASEY47", "status": "active", "frequency": "daily", "station_type": "fixed_ground_station", "access": {"latest": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/aerostratospheric/uogw/resolve/main/layers/ground/casey/wunderground/latest.json", "hourly": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/aerostratospheric/uogw/resolve/main/layers/ground/casey/wunderground/hourly_2026-09-21_2026-10-22.csv", "daily_summary": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/aerostratospheric/uogw/resolve/main/layers/ground/casey/summary/daily_2026-09-16_2026-10-22.csv", "browse": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/aerostratospheric/uogw/tree/main/layers/ground/casey/wunderground"}, "upstream": "Aerostratospheric Fixed Weather Station KILCASEY47. Licence: not yet specified for this layer; credit Aerostratospheric Fixed Weather Station KILCASEY47.", "note": "Station data is provided to NOAA through the Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) via KE9CFY."},
    {"id": "msds-gmc800-casey", "layer": "ground", "title": "Casey, Illinois GMC-800 Fixed Radiation Station", "status": "active", "frequency": "event / history ingest", "station_type": "fixed_weather_and_radiation", "lat": 39.2974, "lon": -87.9818, "access": {"latest": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Midwest-Stratospheric/Unified-Open-Global-Weather/main/layers/ground/casey/gmc-800/latest.json", "station": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Midwest-Stratospheric/Unified-Open-Global-Weather/main/layers/ground/casey/gmc-800/station.json", "browse": "https://github.com/Midwest-Stratospheric/Unified-Open-Global-Weather/tree/main/layers/ground/casey/gmc-800", "igdr": "https://github.com/Midwest-Stratospheric/International-Ground-Data-Repository/blob/main/stations/msds-gmc800-casey.json"}, "upstream": "GQ Electronics GMC-800 / Data Viewer 2.75"},
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    {"id": "msds-flights", "layer": "flight", "title": "X2Griffon / MSDS High-Altitude Flight Packages", "status": "coming_soon", "first_expected": "2026-09-19", "access": {"repository": "https://github.com/Midwest-Stratospheric/msds-data/tree/main/flights", "planned_api": "/data/v1/flights"}},
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    {"id": "copernicus-cuon", "layer": "upper-air", "title": "Copernicus Comprehensive Upper-air Observation Network (CUON)", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://climate.copernicus.eu/"}},
    {"id": "gruan", "layer": "upper-air", "title": "GRUAN Reference Upper-Air Network", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://www.gruan.org/"}},
    {"id": "uwyo-soundings", "layer": "upper-air", "title": "University of Wyoming Atmospheric Soundings", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html"}},
    {"id": "noaa-ghcnd", "layer": "ground", "title": "NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCNd)", "status": "indexed", "coverage": "global", "access": {"authoritative": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/global-historical-climatology-network-daily"}},
    {"id": "iem-asos", "layer": "ground", "title": "Iowa Environmental Mesonet ASOS/METAR Archive", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml"}},
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    {"id": "nasa-power", "layer": "ground", "title": "NASA POWER Agroclimatology / Meteorology", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://power.larc.nasa.gov/"}},
    {"id": "cwop", "layer": "ground", "title": "Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP)", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://www.wxqa.com/"}},
    {"id": "ndbc-buoys", "layer": "marine", "title": "NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)", "status": "active_planned", "access": {"authoritative": "https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/", "realtime": "https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/realtime2/"}, "automation": "ndbc-marine-daily.yml"},
    {"id": "argo", "layer": "marine", "title": "Argo Global Ocean Profiling Float Array", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://argo.ucsd.edu/", "gdac": "https://www.argonet.org/"}},
    {"id": "icoads", "layer": "marine", "title": "International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://icoads.noaa.gov/"}},
    {"id": "noaa-tides", "layer": "marine", "title": "NOAA CO-OPS Water Levels / Tide Gauges", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/"}},
    {"id": "swoosh", "layer": "stratospheric", "title": "NASA SWOOSH Stratospheric Water and Ozone Satellite Homogenized", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://csl.noaa.gov/groups/csl8/swoosh/"}},
    {"id": "qbo", "layer": "stratospheric", "title": "Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (tropical stratospheric winds)", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/en/met/ag/strat/produkte/qbo/index.html"}},
    {"id": "woudc-ozone", "layer": "stratospheric", "title": "WOUDC Ozone Sonde / Total Ozone Network", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://woudc.org/"}},
    {"id": "shadoz", "layer": "stratospheric", "title": "SHADOZ Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://tropo.gsfc.nasa.gov/shadoz/"}},
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    {"id": "goes-open", "layer": "satellite", "title": "NOAA GOES Open Data (ABI / products)", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://www.goes.noaa.gov/", "aws": "https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-goes/"}},
    {"id": "cosmic-ro", "layer": "satellite", "title": "COSMIC / GNSS Radio Occultation (open products)", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/"}},
    {"id": "arm", "layer": "ground", "title": "DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://www.arm.gov/"}},
    {"id": "ecmwf-open", "layer": "satellite", "title": "ECMWF / Copernicus Open Datasets (selected)", "status": "indexed", "access": {"authoritative": "https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/open-data", "cds": "https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/"}}
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}