Package 'riem'

Title: Accesses Weather Data from the Iowa Environment Mesonet
Description: Allows to get weather data from Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) stations (airports) in the whole world thanks to the Iowa Environment Mesonet website.
Authors: Maëlle Salmon [aut, cre] , Brooke Anderson [rev] (Brooke Anderson reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/39.), CHAI Project [fnd] (The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the ERC Grant Agreement number 336167– the CHAI Project), rOpenSci [fnd] (https://ropensci.org/), Daryl Herzmann [ctb]
Maintainer: Maëlle Salmon <[email protected]>
License: GPL (>= 2)
Version: 0.3.1.9000
Built: 2024-08-25 05:41:30 UTC
Source: https://github.com/ropensci/riem

Help Index


Get weather data from one station

Description

Get weather data from one station

Usage

riem_measures(
  station = "VOHY",
  date_start = "2014-01-01",
  date_end = as.character(Sys.Date())
)

Arguments

station

station ID, see riem_stations()

date_start

date of start of the desired data, e.g. "2000-01-01"

date_end

date of end of the desired data, e.g. "2016-04-22"

Details

The data is queried through https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml.# nolint: line_length_linter

Value

a data.frame (tibble tibble) with measures, the number of columns can vary from station to station, but possible variables are

  • station: three or four character site identifier

  • valid: timestamp of the observation (UTC)

  • tmpf: Air Temperature in Fahrenheit, typically @ 2 meters

  • dwpf: Dew Point Temperature in Fahrenheit, typically @ 2 meters

  • relh: Relative Humidity in

  • drct: Wind Direction in degrees from north

  • sknt: Wind Speed in knots

  • p01i: One hour precipitation for the period from the observation time to the time of the previous hourly precipitation reset. This varies slightly by site. Values are in inches. This value may or may not contain frozen precipitation melted by some device on the sensor or estimated by some other means. Unfortunately, we do not know of an authoritative database denoting which station has which sensor.

  • alti: Pressure altimeter in inches

  • mslp: Sea Level Pressure in millibar

  • vsby: Visibility in miles

  • gust: Wind Gust in knots

  • skyc1: Sky Level 1 Coverage

  • skyc2: Sky Level 2 Coverage

  • skyc3: Sky Level 3 Coverage

  • skyc4: Sky Level 4 Coverage

  • skyl1: Sky Level 1 Altitude in feet

  • skyl2: Sky Level 2 Altitude in feet

  • skyl3: Sky Level 3 Altitude in feet

  • skyl4: Sky Level 4 Altitude in feet

  • presentwx: Present Weather Codes (space seperated), see e.g. Chapter 8 of [this manual](https://www.ofcm.gov/publications/fmh/FMH1/FMH1.pdf) for further explanations.# nolint: line_length_linter

  • feel: Apparent Temperature (Wind Chill or Heat Index) in degF

  • ice_accretion_1hr: Ice Accretion over 1 Hour in inch

  • ice_accretion_3hr: Ice Accretion over 3 Hour in inch

  • ice_accretion_6hr: Ice Accretion over 6 Hour in inch

  • relh: Relative Humidity in

  • metar: unprocessed reported observation in METAR format

  • peak_wind_gust: Wind gust in knots from the METAR PK WND remark, this value may be different than the value found in the gust field. The gust field is derived from the standard METAR wind report.

  • peak_wind_drct: The wind direction in degrees North denoted in the METAR PK WND remark.

  • peak_wind_time: The timestamp of the PK WND value in the same timezone as the valid field and controlled by the tz parameter.

Examples

## Not run: 
riem_measures(
  station = "VOHY",
  date_start = "2016-01-01",
  date_end = "2016-04-22"
)

## End(Not run)

Get ASOS and AWOS networks

Description

Get ASOS and AWOS networks

Usage

riem_networks()

Value

a data.frame (tibble tibble) with the names and codes of available networks.

Examples

## Not run: 
riem_networks()

## End(Not run)

Get stations of an ASOS network

Description

Get stations of an ASOS network

Usage

riem_stations(network)

Arguments

network

A single network code, see riem_networks() for finding the code corresponding to a name.

Details

You can see a map of stations in a network at https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/download.phtml.

Value

a data.frame (tibble tibble) with the id, name, longitude (lon) and latitude (lat) of each station in the network.

Examples

## Not run: 
riem_stations(network = "IN__ASOS")

## End(Not run)