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Use the America/Chicago timezone."},{"title":"Irrigation scheduling for horticulture","prompt":"Can you get me the hourly shallow soil temperature data for coordinates 42.35355 latitude, -71.06053 longitude between June 1 and June 30, 2025 in the America/New_York timezone? I need to adjust my irrigation schedule based on soil heat."},{"title":"Agricultural research data export","prompt":"I'm doing a research project and need hourly 0-10cm soil temperature readings in CSV format for three locations — latitude 37.7575, 42.3535, 29.9799 and longitude -122.4262, -71.0605, -90.0745 — from January 1 to March 31, 2025, all in UTC."}],"resultDescription":"Returns a structured dataset (JSON, GeoJSON, or CSV) containing hourly soil temperature values in Celsius at 0-10cm depth for each requested coordinate, timestamped and localized to the specified timezone, covering the full requested date range.","failureModes":["Invalid or out-of-range latitude/longitude values return an error","Mismatched number of latitude and longitude coordinates","Unsupported or invalid IANA timezone identifier","Date range too large may cause timeout or truncated response","Invalid format parameter returns an error","Missing required query parameters returns a validation error","Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the response"],"whenToPreferThis":"Choose this endpoint when you need time-series soil temperature data at shallow (0-10cm) depth with hourly granularity for precise agricultural, environmental, or research applications. It supports multi-point queries in a single call with flexible output formats (JSON, GeoJSON, CSV), making it ideal for programmatic analysis or data pipelines. Prefer this over surface air temperature APIs when subsurface soil conditions are specifically needed for planting, irrigation, or soil science workflows.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-09-16T12:50:48.490Z","isFirstParty":false}