nearest_stations_ogimet: List of nearby synop stations for a defined geographical location
Description
Returns a data frame of meteorological stations with their coordinates and distance from a given location based on the ogimet webpage.
The returned list is valid only for a given day.
Usage
nearest_stations_ogimet(
country = "United+Kingdom",
date = Sys.Date(),
add_map = FALSE,
point = c(0, 0),
no_of_stations = 1,
...
)
Arguments
country
country name; for more than two words they need to be seperated with a plus character (e.g., "United+Kingdom")
date
optionally, a day when measurements were done in all available locations; current Sys.Date used by default
add_map
logical - whether to draw a map for a returned data frame (requires maps/mapdata packages)
point
a vector of two coordinates (longitude, latitude) for a point we want to find nearest stations to (e.g. c(0, 0))
no_of_stations
how many nearest stations will be returned from the given geographical coordinates
...
extra arguments to be provided to the graphics::plot() function (only if add_map = TRUE)
Value
A data.frame with number of nearest station according to given point columns describing stations parameters (e.g. ID station, distance from point,geografic coordinates) where each row represent a measurement,
each station which has a measurements on selected date. If add_map = TRUE additional map of downloaded data is added.