get_hurdat: Get HURDAT and parse to dataframe

In HURDAT: Hurricane Re-Analysis Project

Description

Retrieve Raw HURDAT files for Atlantic (AL), northeast and central Pacific (EP) basins (northwestern hemisphere)

Usage

get_hurdat(basin = c("AL", "EP"))

Arguments

basin

AL or EP. Default is both.

Details

Raw text files should be found at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/hurdat/ as of this writing. The codebooks are listed below.

See Also

Atlantic codebook: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/hurdat/hurdat2-format-atlantic.pdf

NE/NC Pacific codebook: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/hurdat/hurdat2-format-atlantic.pdf

Examples

## Not run: 
# Get Atlantic storms
al <- get_hurdat(basin = "AL")

# Get northeast and north-central Pacific storms.
ep <- get_hurdat(basin = "EP")

# Get all storms
df <- get_hurdat()

## End(Not run)

HURDAT documentation built on Jan. 13, 2021, 5 a.m.