nearbyStations: Find DWD stations close to given coordinates

In rdwd: Select and Download Climate Data from 'DWD' (German Weather Service)

Find DWD stations close to given coordinates

Description

Select DWD stations within a given radius around a set of coordinates

Usage

nearbyStations(
  lat,
  lon,
  radius,
  res = NA,
  var = NA,
  per = NA,
  mindate = NA,
  hasfileonly = TRUE,
  mindex = metaIndex,
  current = FALSE,
  statname = "nearbyStations target location",
  quiet = rdwdquiet(),
  ...
)

Arguments

lat	Coordinates y component [degrees N/S, range 47:55]
lon	Coordinates x component [degrees E/W, range 6:15]
radius	Maximum distance [km] within which stations will be selected
res, var, per	Restrictions for dataset type as documented in selectDWD(). Each can be a vector of entries. DEFAULTS: NA (ignored)
mindate	Minimum dataset ending date (as per metadata). DEFAULT: NA
hasfileonly	Logical: only return entries for which there is an open-access file available? DEFAULT: TRUE
mindex	Index with metadata for selecting data. See https://bookdown.org/brry/rdwd/fileindex.html#metaindex DEFAULT: metaIndex
current	Get current mindex for res/var/per? All 3 must be given. See selectDWD() for details. DEFAULT: FALSE
statname	Character: name for target location. DEFAULT: "nearbyStations target location"
quiet	Logical: suppress progress messages? DEFAULT: FALSE through rdwdquiet()
...	Further arguments passed to selectDWD()

Value

metaIndex subset with additional columns "dist" and "url"

Author(s)

Berry Boessenkool, [e-mail], Mar 2017, Aug 2025

See Also

selectDWD(), metaIndex, website use case with nearbyStations

Examples

m <- nearbyStations(49.211784, 9.812475, radius=30,
    res=c("daily","hourly"), var=c("precipitation","more_precip","kl"),
    mindate=as.Date("2016-05-30"), statname="Braunsbach catchment center")
# View(m)

# for a continued example of this, see the website use case
# "plot all rainfall values around a given point" (ca section 21):
# browseURL("https://bookdown.org/brry/rdwd")

rdwd documentation built on Aug. 18, 2025, 5:22 p.m.