PRISM Growing Degree Days (Trial)
The PRISM GDD API delivers cumulative, historic, and yearly growing degree day data for a given area of interest and temperature threshold, sourced from the PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University.
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Please note, this is the trial version of this API with limited usage. Please purchase a subscription key for continued use.

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Call API
Request
Request URL
Request parameters
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Define the end month of data range.
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Define the end day of data range.
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Define the end year of data range.
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X coordinate for location desired.
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Y coordinate for location desired.
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Define the start year of data range.
Request body
Responses
200 OK
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/prismgdd-clone/?month=3&day=1&year=2019&coordinateX=-88.9893385940128&coordinateY=40.010959177421654&startYear=1981"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request parameters
queryString["month"] = "3";
queryString["day"] = "1";
queryString["year"] = "2019";
queryString["coordinateX"] = "-88.9893385940128";
queryString["coordinateY"] = "40.010959177421654";
queryString["startYear"] = "1981";
var uri = "https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/prismgdd-clone/?" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/prismgdd-clone/");
builder.setParameter("month", "3");
builder.setParameter("day", "1");
builder.setParameter("year", "2019");
builder.setParameter("coordinateX", "-88.9893385940128");
builder.setParameter("coordinateY", "40.010959177421654");
builder.setParameter("startYear", "1981");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
"month": "3",
"day": "1",
"year": "2019",
"coordinateX": "-88.9893385940128",
"coordinateY": "40.010959177421654",
"startYear": "1981",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/prismgdd-clone/?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/prismgdd-clone/";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"month=3",
@"day=1",
@"year=2019",
@"coordinateX=-88.9893385940128",
@"coordinateY=40.010959177421654",
@"startYear=1981",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/prismgdd-clone/');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'month' => '3',
'day' => '1',
'year' => '2019',
'coordinateX' => '-88.9893385940128',
'coordinateY' => '40.010959177421654',
'startYear' => '1981',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'month': '3',
'day': '1',
'year': '2019',
'coordinateX': '-88.9893385940128',
'coordinateY': '40.010959177421654',
'startYear': '1981',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('ag-analytics.azure-api.net')
conn.request("GET", "/prismgdd-clone/?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'month': '3',
'day': '1',
'year': '2019',
'coordinateX': '-88.9893385940128',
'coordinateY': '40.010959177421654',
'startYear': '1981',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('ag-analytics.azure-api.net')
conn.request("GET", "/prismgdd-clone/?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://ag-analytics.azure-api.net/prismgdd-clone/')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'month' => '3',
'day' => '1',
'year' => '2019',
'coordinateX' => '-88.9893385940128',
'coordinateY' => '40.010959177421654',
'startYear' => '1981'
})
if query.length > 0
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body