get_sounding: Download rawinsonde measurement

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Download rawinsonde measurement

Description

Download rawinsonde measurement from sounding database of the University of Wyoming in a form convenient to use with thundeR package. In case of problems with downloading the chosen dataset the url is checked 5 times in 5-second intervals.

Usage

get_sounding(wmo_id, yy, mm, dd, hh, metadata = FALSE)

Arguments

wmo_id	international WMO station code (e.g. 11035 for Vienna)
yy	year - single number (e.g. 2010)
mm	month - single number (e.g. 5)
dd	day - single number (e.g. 23)
hh	hour - single number (e.g. 0)
metadata	- logical, whether to return metadata of downloaded sounding; default FALSE

Value

Returns two lists with values described at: weather.uwyo.edu ; The first list contains:

1. pressure - pressure [hPa]

2. altitude - altitude [meters]

3. temp - temperature [degree Celsius]

4. dpt - dew point temperature [degree Celsius]

5. wd - wind direction [azimuth in degrees]

6. ws - wind speed [knots]

If metadata = TRUE then retrieved data is wrapped into a second list containing available metadata

Source

http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html

Examples

# download rawinsonde profile from Leba station (WMO ID: 12120) for 20 August 2010 1200 UTC:

  profile = get_sounding(wmo_id = 12120, 
                         yy = 2010,
                         mm = 8, 
                         dd = 20, 
                         hh = 12)
  head(profile)
  

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