| get_station_metadata {stationaRy} | R Documentation |
Get a table of metadata for meteorological stations
Description
Obtain a tibble containing information on all of the stations that have data.
Usage
get_station_metadata()
Value
Returns a tibble with 16 columns.
- id
A character string that is a unique identifier for the weather station.
- usaf
A character string identifying the fixed weather station from the USAF Master Station Catalog. USAF is an acronym for United States Air Force.
- wban
A character string for the fixed weather station NCDC WBAN identifier. NCDC is an acronym for National Climatic Data Center. WBAN is an acronym for Weather Bureau, Air Force and Navy.
- name
A character string with the station name.
- country
A character string with the two character country code where the station is located. Not identical to
country_code.- state
Character string of the two character abbreviation of a US state (when applicable).
- icao
The ICAO identifier for the station.
- lat
Latitude (degrees) rounded to three decimal places.
- lon
Longitude (degrees) rounded to three decimal places.
- elev
Numeric value for the elevation as measured in meters. The minimum value is -400 with a maximum of 8850. Elevation in feet can be approximated by
elev * 3.28084- begin_date
The earliest date for which data are available.
- end_date
The latest date for which data are available.
- begin_year
The earliest year for which data are available.
- end_year
The latest year for which data are available.
- tz_name
The time zone name.
Examples
# Obtain a data frame with all available met stations
get_station_metadata()