meteo_imgw: Meteorological data from the IMGW-PIB official repository

In climate: Interface to Download Meteorological (and Hydrological) Datasets

Meteorological data from the IMGW-PIB official repository

Description

Downloading hourly, daily, and monthly meteorological data from the SYNOP / CLIMATE / PRECIP stations, or sub-hourly (10-minute) telemetry data from the automated network, all available in the danepubliczne.imgw.pl collection.

Usage

meteo_imgw(
  interval = NULL,
  rank = "synop",
  year,
  status = FALSE,
  coords = FALSE,
  station = NULL,
  parameters = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

interval	temporal resolution of the data: "hourly", "daily", or "monthly". Not used when rank = "telemetry" (telemetry data are always at 10-minute intervals). Defaults to NULL, which is only valid together with rank = "telemetry".
rank	rank of the stations: "synop" (default), "climate", "precip", or "telemetry". Use "telemetry" for the automated IMGW datastore network (data available since 2008).
year	vector of years (e.g., 1966:2000). For rank = "telemetry" all years must be >= 2008.
status	leave the columns with measurement and observation statuses (default FALSE — status columns are deleted). Not used when rank = "telemetry".
coords	add coordinates of the station (logical value TRUE or FALSE). Default FALSE.
station	name of meteorological station(s). For ranks "synop", "climate", "precip": station name(s) in CAPITAL LETTERS. Please note that station names may change over time — sometimes two names are required, e.g. c("POZNAŃ", "POZNAŃ-ŁAWICA"). For rank = "telemetry": station name(s) as listed by stations_meteo_imgw_telemetry(). NULL (default) downloads all available stations.
parameters	character vector of parameter codes to download. Only used when rank = "telemetry". NULL (default) downloads all available parameters. Accepted values: "wd", "t2m", "t0m", "rr_24h", "rr_1h", "rr_10min", "ws", "ws_max", "gust", "rh", "water_in_snow".
...	other parameters passed to the column-shortening function. Not used when rank = "telemetry".

Value

A data.frame with meteorological parameters where each row is a measurement. For ranks "synop", "climate", "precip": measurements at a given hour, day, or month, depending on interval. If coords = TRUE two additional coordinate columns are appended. IMGW parameter columns also carry a label attribute with the original Polish metadata label. For rank = "telemetry": a data.table with 10-minute interval observations (not expert-validated). If coords = TRUE columns name, lon, lat, and alt are appended.

Examples

  x = meteo_imgw("monthly", year = 2018, coords = TRUE)
  head(x)

  # Telemetry (10-minute) data from automated stations (available since 2008):
  tel = meteo_imgw(rank = "telemetry", year = 2022,
                   parameters = "t2m",
                   station = "HALA GĄSIENICOWA")
  head(tel)

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