SURFRAD.get: Get NOAA SURFRAD data
In dazhiyang/SolarData: Work with freely available solar data

Download NOAA Surface Radiation (SURFRAD) data in .dat format.

1	SURFRAD.get(station, year, day.of.year, directory = "data-raw")

`station`	a character string indicating the station name, options are "`Bondville_IL`", "`Boulder_CO`", "`Desert_Rock_NV`", "`Fort_Peck_MT`", "`Goodwin_Creek_MS`", "`Penn_State_PA`", "`Sioux_Falls_SD`". Alternatively, abbreviations of the stations can be used, i.e., "`bon`", "`tbl`", "`dra`", "`fpk`", "`gwn`", "`psu`", "`sxf`", respectively
`year`	a character string indicating the four-digit year
`day.of.year`	days of year to be downloaded, as a numeric array
`directory`	the directory for the downloads, default to "`~/data-raw`"

NOAA high-resolution, long-term, ground-based irradiance measurements at 7 locations.

A .dat file, or .dat files if length(day_of_year) > 1, saved into your intended directory

D. Yang

J.A. Augustine, J.J. DeLuisi, and C.N. Long, SURFRAD–A National Surface Radiation Budget Network for Atmospheric Research. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Volume 81, Pages 2341–2358, https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<2341:SANSRB>2.3.CO;2

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