downloadMETEOCLIMATICcurrentday: Download data from Meteoclimatic network

Description

Download data from the Spanish Automatic Stations Network (non-professional)

Usage

downloadMETEOCLIMATICcurrentday(station_id = "ESCAT")
downloadMETEOCLIMATICstationlist(station_id = "ESCAT")

Value

Function downloadMETEOCLIMATICstationlist returns a SpatialPointsDataFrame object containing the list of Meteoclimatic weather stations for which data is available based on the station_id codes provided.

Function downloadMETEOCLIMATICcurrentday downloads recent weather (for the current day) from all currently available stations and returns a SpatialPointsDataFrame object with observations. Only accumulated precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature and relative humidity are returned.

Arguments

station_id: A string vector containing station ids (the list of stations for which current day climatic data is available is given by downloadMETEOCLIMATICstationlist). By default, returns the list of stations in Catalonia.

Functions

downloadMETEOCLIMATICstationlist():

Author

Víctor Granda, EMF-CREAF

Miquel De Cáceres Ainsa, EMF-CREAF

Details

Meteoclimatic is a non-professional automatic stations network, maintained by volunteers that share the data from their climatic stations. Data offered by these stations has not passed any quality control.

References

Meteoclimatic should be acknowledged as author of information when using this data.