Climate is an essential component of environmental models. Over the last two decades, many weather generators have been presented in the literature. Although their implementation into software has been of great help to environmental modellers, their lack of integration into modelling frameworks still represents a challenge for end users. In many cases, end users have to retrieve the climate variables by themselves in order to use an environmental model. In some other cases, the weather generator software is embedded into the modelling framework, but this increases the maintenance effort.

In this paper, we present a different approach: the deployment of a weather generator as a Web API. A few application examples are provided to illustrate the benefits of this implementation. In summary, a Web API facilitates the integration into modelling frameworks, decreases the maintenance effort and avoid interoperability issues due to different programming languages.

气候是环境模型的重要组成部分。在过去的二十年中，文献中已经介绍了许多天气发生器。尽管它们在软件中的实现对环境建模者有很大帮助，但它们缺乏与建模框架的集成仍然是最终用户面临的挑战。在许多情况下，最终用户必须自己检索气候变量才能使用环境模型。在其他一些情况下，天气生成器软件被嵌入到建模框架中，但这会增加维护工作量。

在本文中，我们提出了一种不同的方法：将天气生成器部署为 Web API。提供了一些应用示例来说明这种实现的好处。总之，Web API 有助于集成到建模框架中，减少维护工作并避免由于不同的编程语言而导致的互操作性问题。