worldmet (version 1.0.0)

worldmet-package: worldmet: Import Surface Meteorological Data from NOAA

Description

Functions to import data from more than 30,000 surface meteorological sites around the world managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) and Integrated Surface Database (ISD).

Author

Maintainer: David Carslaw (ORCID)

Authors:

• Jack Davison (ORCID)

Details

This package contains functions to import surface meteorological data from over 30,000 sites around the world. These data are curated by NOAA as part of the Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN), which replaced the Integrated Surface Database (ISD) in 2025.

If you access these data using the worldmet package please give full acknowledgement to NOAA. Users should also take a note of the usage restrictions.

These data work well with the openair package that has been developed to analyse air pollution data.

References

For general information about the GHCNh, see https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/global-historical-climatology-network-hourly.

For general information about the legacy ISD service, see https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/integrated-surface-database.

See Also

See https://github.com/openair-project/openair for information on the related openair package.