rnoaa (version 0.6.0)

isd_stations: Get NOAA ISD/ISH station data from NOAA FTP server.

Description

Get NOAA ISD/ISH station data from NOAA FTP server.

Usage

isd_stations(refresh = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

refresh

(logical) Download station data from NOAA ftp server again. Default: FALSE

...

Curl options passed on to GET

Value

a tibble (data.frame) with the columns:

• usaf - USAF number, character
• wban - WBAN number, character
• station_name - station name, character
• ctry - Country, if given, character
• state - State, if given, character
• icao - ICAO number, if given, character
• lat - Latitude, if given, numeric
• lon - Longitude, if given, numeric
• elev_m - Elevation, if given, numeric
• begin - Begin date of data coverage, of form YYYYMMDD, numeric
• end - End date of data coverage, of form YYYYMMDD, numeric

Details

The data table is cached, but you can force download of data from NOAA by setting refresh=TRUE

References

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/

See Also

isd, isd_stations_search

Examples

## Not run: 
# # Get station table
# (stations <- isd_stations())
# 
# ## plot stations
# ### remove incomplete cases, those at 0,0
# df <- stations[complete.cases(stations$lat, stations$lon), ]
# df <- df[df$lat != 0, ]
# ### make plot
# library("leaflet")
# leaflet(data = df) %>%
#   addTiles() %>%
#   addCircles()
# ## End(Not run)