cefa_createMeta: Obtain metadata for every station.

In MazamaScience/RAWSmet: Download and Process data from Remote Automatic Weather Stations

Obtain metadata for every station.

Description

Assembles individual station metadata from a CEFA webservice into a standardized dataframe. Metdata columns include:

• deviceDeploymentID – unique identifier

• deviceID – device identifier

• locationID – location identifier

• locationName – English language name

• longitude – decimal degrees E

• latitude – decimal degrees N

• elevation – elevation of station in m

• countryCode – ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

• stateCode – ISO 3166-2 alpha-2

• timezone – Olson time zone

• nwsID – NWS station identifier (for FW13 data)

• wrccID – WRCC station identifier (for WRCC data)

• nessID – NESS station identifier (in WRCC data)

• agencyName – responsible agency (in WRCC data)

Usage

cefa_createMeta(
  metadataUrl = "https://cefa.dri.edu/raws/RAWSfw13list.xlsx",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

metadataUrl	URL for station metadata.
verbose	Logical flag controlling detailed progress statements.

Value

Dataframe of station metadata.

References

Program for Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications

Examples

## Not run: 
# Fail gracefully if any resources are not available
try({

library(RAWSmet)

library(MazamaSpatialUtils)
setSpatialDataDir("~/Data/Spatial")

meta <- cefa_createMeta(verbose = TRUE)
dplyr::glimpse(meta, width = 75)

}, silent = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

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