WeatherDatasetNewAdded 2026-11-13

Berkeley Earth global surface-temperature series

Global: monthly land-and-ocean temperature anomalies, as keyless text files

FreeNon-commercial onlyauth: noneCustom✓ verified Nov 13, 2026

Free?: FreeNon-commercial use only. Free keyless text files.
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Non-commercial use only: Berkeley Earth licenses its data under CC BY-NC 4.0

Berkeley Earth's data page says:

“In general, Berkeley Earth’s data is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 International for non-commercial use only.”

Source: Berkeley Earth: Data (checked Nov 13, 2026). This isn't legal advice.

For other global temperature series in the catalog without a non-commercial restriction in their terms, see:

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The fine print

License note: Non-commercial use only. The data page says "In general, Berkeley Earth’s data is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 International for non-commercial use only." and links the CC BY-NC 4.0 deed. Signal Lab links only.
Required attribution: Required by CC BY-NC 4.0: credit Berkeley Earth.

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// Overview

Berkeley Earth global surface-temperature series

Berkeley Earth publishes global land and ocean surface-temperature series, including a keyless plain-text land-and-ocean complete series served from its S3 bucket.

Coverage

Global: monthly land-and-ocean temperature anomalies, as keyless text files.

Good for

#weather#climate#temperature#files#non-commercial

Verdict

An independent global temperature series for climate context, alongside hadcrut5-global-temperature. Non-commercial warning: the data page says "In general, Berkeley Earth’s data is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 International for non-commercial use only." Licence: Custom (CC BY-NC 4.0, non-commercial only); the page links the CC BY-NC 4.0 deed. Rate limits: Not stated. Signal Lab links only.

// Limits

Free limits & license

Price	Free
Auth	none
Free tier	Non-commercial use only. Free keyless text files.
Rate limit	Not stated.
License	Custom (see note)
License note	Non-commercial use only. The data page says "In general, Berkeley Earth’s data is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 International for non-commercial use only." and links the CC BY-NC 4.0 deed. Signal Lab links only.
Last verified	Nov 13, 2026

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Quick facts

Provider: berkeley-earth-temperature.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com
Type: Dataset
Category: Weather
Domain: Weather
Auth: none
Free tier: Non-commercial use only. Free keyless text files.
Rate limit: Not stated.
License: Custom (see note)
License note: Non-commercial use only. The data page says "In general, Berkeley Earth’s data is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 International for non-commercial use only." and links the CC BY-NC 4.0 deed. Signal Lab links only.
Verified: Nov 13, 2026

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Fetch https://signal-lab.qdt.ai/catalog.json, find slug "berkeley-earth-temperature" and read its licenseNote. Berkeley Earth says its data is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 International for non-commercial use only. So do not write a commercial loader for this series. If my use is non-commercial, write code that downloads the Land_and_Ocean_complete.txt series from Berkeley Earth's S3 bucket when I run it, and credit Berkeley Earth as CC BY-NC 4.0 requires; for commercial use, tell me to ask Berkeley Earth about a commercial licence.

// Full record · catalog.json

name: Berkeley Earth global surface-temperature series
slug: berkeley-earth-temperature
category: Weather
domain: Weather
type: Dataset
sitePageUrl: https://signal-lab.qdt.ai/datasets/berkeley-earth-temperature
providerUrl: https://berkeley-earth-temperature.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Global/Land_and_Ocean_complete.txt
badge: Free
auth: none
freeTierLimits: Non-commercial use only. Free keyless text files.
rateLimits: Not stated.
docsUrl: https://berkeley-earth-temperature.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Global/Land_and_Ocean_complete.txt
coverage: Global: monthly land-and-ocean temperature anomalies, as keyless text files.
lastVerified: 2026-11-13
evidenceUrls: https://berkeley-earth-temperature.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/Global/Land_and_Ocean_complete.txt
https://berkeleyearth.org/data/
tasks: weather
climate
temperature
files
non-commercial
license: Custom
licenseUrl: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
licenseNote: Non-commercial use only. The data page says "In general, Berkeley Earth’s data is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 International for non-commercial use only." and links the CC BY-NC 4.0 deed. Signal Lab links only.
attribution: Required by CC BY-NC 4.0: credit Berkeley Earth.

// The same record over MCP

Request · get_entry

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_entry",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "berkeley-earth-temperature"
    }
  }
}

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Berkeley Earth global surface-temperature series

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// Full record · catalog.json

// The same record over MCP

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