get_coastal_forecast: Get BOM coastal waters forecast
In bomrang: Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology ('BOM') Data Client

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Fetch the BOM daily Coastal Waters Forecast and return a data frame of the forecast regions for a specified state or region.

1	get_coastal_forecast(state = "AUS")

state

Australian state or territory as full name or postal code. Fuzzy string matching via agrep is done. Defaults to “AUS” returning all state forecasts, see details for further information.

Allowed state and territory postal codes, only one state per request or all using AUS.

ACT: Australian Capital Territory (will return NSW)
NSW: New South Wales
NT: Northern Territory
QLD: Queensland
SA: South Australia
TAS: Tasmania
VIC: Victoria
WA: Western Australia
AUS: Australia, returns forecast for all states, NT and ACT

A data.table of an Australia BOM Coastal Waters Forecast. For full details of fields and units returned see Appendix 5 in the bomrang vignette, use
vignette("bomrang", package = "bomrang") to view.

Dean Marchiori, deanmarchiori@gmail.com and Paul Melloy paul@melloy.com.au

Forecast data come from Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Weather Data Services
http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml

Location data and other metadata come from the BOM anonymous FTP server with spatial data
ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/, specifically the DBF file portion of a shapefile,
ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/IDM00003.dbf

parse_coastal_forecast