get_pvol: Get polar volume (PVOL) data from supported sources

In getRad: Download Radar Data for Biological Research

Get polar volume (PVOL) data from supported sources

Description

Gets polar volume data from supported sources and returns it as a (list of) polar volume objects. The source is automatically detected based on the provided radar.

Usage

get_pvol(radar = NULL, datetime = NULL, ...)

Arguments

radar	Name of the radar (odim code) as a character string (e.g. "nlhrw" or "fikor").
datetime	Either: A single POSIXct, for which the most representative data file is downloaded. In most cases this will be the time before. A lubridate::interval() or two POSIXct, between which all data files are downloaded.
...	Additional arguments passed on to reading functions, for example param = "all" to the bioRad::read_pvolfile().

Details

For more details on supported sources, see vignette("supported_sources"). Within supported countries there might also be temporal restrictions on the radars that are operational. For example, radars with the status 0 in get_weather_radars("opera") are currently not operational.

Not all radars in the nexrad archive can be read successfully. Radars associated with the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) program can not be read. These can be identified using the stntype column in get_weather_radars("nexrad").

Value

Either a polar volume or a list of polar volumes. See bioRad::summary.pvol() for details.

Examples

# Get PVOL data for a single radar and datetime
get_pvol("deess", as.POSIXct(Sys.Date()))

# Get PVOL data for multiple radars and a single datetime
get_pvol(
  c("deess", "dehnr", "fianj", "czska", "KABR"),
  as.POSIXct(Sys.Date())
)

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