CoAgMET Colorado Agricultural Meteorological Network
Colorado Climate Center network of 90+ research-grade weather stations originally designed to measure reference evapotranspiration near crops, with daily crop-water-use ET reports and soil moisture, located in agricultural areas of Colorado.
coagmet.colostate.edu
At a glance
- Region
- United States (North America)
- Coverage
- Colorado
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Academic
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- evapotranspiration
- weather station
- soil moisture
- agriculture
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Irrigation scheduling
Decide when and how much to irrigate.
Because it has: evapotranspiration
- 02
Water accounting
Track how much water crops actually consume across a command area.
- 03
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Field-scale ET
Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.
- 02
Demand forecasts
Predict irrigation demand weeks ahead for canal and pump planning.
- 03
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
CoAgMET data API (beta) returns observations, GDD and soil moisture in JSON/XML/CSV via a URL builder.
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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