NORA3 / MET Nordic Regional Reanalysis (THREDDS)
3 km Norwegian regional reanalysis (NORA3) hourly surface and near-surface fields including total precipitation, served via MET Norway THREDDS with aggregated time series and per-file OPeNDAP/HTTP download.
thredds.met.no
At a glance
- Region
- Norway (Europe)
- Coverage
- Nordic area, ~1991-present, 3 km hourly
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- Regional reanalysis
- Precipitation
- Wind
- Temperature
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
Because it has: Regional reanalysis
- 02
Future water
Estimate water availability under future scenarios.
- 03
Design storms
Build rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves for drainage design.
Because it has: Precipitation
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
- 02
Emulators
Replace slow model runs with fast ML emulators.
- 03
Downscaling
Turn coarse rainfall grids into field or ward scale estimates.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
THREDDS catalog with OPeNDAP and NetCDF Subset Service at thredds.met.no
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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