The CRONOS API, or web service, enables developers and scientists to access CRONOS data without concerning themselves with database structure or query syntax. Data can be retrieved by calling a URL. This is especially well suited for Perl, PHP, Java and other scripting languages. All queries go through a URL string. Output is plain text and formatted to parsed easily. Development is still underway. No warranties are made.

Please visit the full documentation here:
http://climate.ncsu.edu/cronos/api_documentation

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