get_river_discharge_data {WES}

Get river discharge data

Description

This function takes information of where and when a set of environmental samples were collected and retrieves daily river discharge data from the nearest river (m^3/s) for those locations and times. Data come from the Open-Meteo Global Flood API (https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/flood-api) via the openmeteo R package.

Usage

get_river_discharge_data(lon, lat, dates)

Arguments

lon

A numeric vector giving the longitude of the sampling sites in Decimal Degrees.

lat

A numeric vector giving the latitude of the sampling sites in Decimal Degrees.

dates

A character or date vector of dates giving the date when each sample was collected (format is YYYY-MM-DD)

Value

data.frame

Examples

tmp <- get_river_discharge_data(lon = c(-54.9857, -52.9857),
                                lat = c(-10.9094, -25.8756),
                                dates = c("2020-06-01", "2020-10-31"))

head(tmp)