downloadMGcurrentday: Download data from MeteoGalicia

Description

Download data from the Galician Meterology Agency (MeteoGalicia)

Usage

downloadMGcurrentday(station_id = NULL, daily = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)
downloadMGhistorical(date_from, date_to, station_id = NULL, verbose = TRUE)
downloadMGstationlist()

Value

Function downloadMGstationlist returns a SpatialPointsDataFrame object containing the list of MeteoGalicia weather stations currently operative. Function downloadMGhistorical downloads data for the specified MG weather stations (or all) and dates and returns a SpatialPointsMeteorology-class object with the downloaded meteorology for each station (point).

Function downloadMGcurrentday downloads recent weather data (the last 24h) from all currently available stations and returns data frame if daily = FALSE or a SpatialPointsDataFrame object with observations aggregated at the daily scale otherwise.

Arguments

station_id: A string vector containing station ids (the list of stations presently operative is given by downloadMGstationlist). If NULL all stations with available data are returned.
daily: Boolean flag. Are data to be returned at a daily or hourly scale?
verbose: Boolean flag to print process information.
date_from, date_to: Strings or objects of class Date specifying first and last date of the desired period.

Functions

downloadMGhistorical():
downloadMGstationlist():

Author

Miquel De Cáceres Ainsa, CREAF

Details

See available data services of MeteoGalicia at https://www.meteogalicia.gal/web/RSS/rssIndex.action?request_locale=es.

References

MeteoGalicia (from the Conselleria de Medio Ambiente, Territorio e Vivenda of Xunta de Galicia) should be acknowledged as source of information when using this data.