getRad: Download Radar Data for Biological Research

Load polar volume and vertical profile data for aeroecological research directly into R. With 'getRad' you can access data from several sources in Europe and the US and standardize it to facilitate further exploration in tools such as 'bioRad'.

Package details

AuthorBart Kranstauber [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8303-780X>, affiliation: University of Amsterdam), Pieter Huybrechts [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6658-6062>, affiliation: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)), Peter Desmet [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025>, affiliation: Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)), Cecilia Nilsson [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8957-4411>, affiliation: Lund University), Alexander Tedeschi [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0772-6931>, affiliation: Cornell Lab of Ornithology), Hidde Leijnse [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7835-4480>, affiliation: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), Bart Hoekstra [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7085-3805>, affiliation: University of Amsterdam), University of Amsterdam [cph] (ROR: <https://ror.org/04dkp9463>), Biodiversa+ [fnd] (https://hirad.science/)
MaintainerBart Kranstauber <b.kranstauber@uva.nl>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.2.0
URL https://github.com/aloftdata/getRad https://aloftdata.github.io/getRad/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("getRad")

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getRad documentation built on Aug. 8, 2025, 7:20 p.m.