download_ncei: Download data from NOAA NCEI

In Bai-Li-NOAA/IFA4EBFM: Interdisciplinary Projections for Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

Download data from NOAA NCEI

Description

It downloads monthly data from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI; https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/statewide/time-series), reshape the data to one column, and save the data to a specified location. It returns a dataframe with 2 columns. One column contains raw values and the other column contains scaled values with specified outpSut range. The values are average values from all states.

Usage

download_ncei(
  years,
  states,
  states_id,
  parameter,
  output_dir,
  scale_range = c(0, 2)
)

Arguments

years	a vector of years.
states	a vector of state names.
states_id	a vector of corresponding state ids from the NCEI website.
parameter	name of the parameter. Either "pcp" or "pdsi". pcp means precipitation and pdsi means Palmer Drought Severity Index.
output_dir	path to output csv file.
scale_range	output range (numeric vector of length two).

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