get_sounding_map: Retrieve pre-generated map for sounding data

In hrbrmstr/unsound: Retrieve Current and Historical Upper Air Soundings Data from the University of Wyoming

Description

Retrieve pre-generated map for sounding data

Usage

get_sounding_map(station_number, date, map_type = c("skewt", "stuve",
  "stuve10", "stuve700", "hodo"), map_format = c("pdf", "gif"),
  include_frost = FALSE, region = c("naconf", "samer", "pac", "nz", "ant",
  "np", "europe", "africa", "seasia", "mideast"), from_hr = c("00", "12",
  "all"), to_hr = c("00", "12", "all"))

Arguments

station_number	the station number
date	an ISO character string (e.g. YYYY-mm-dd) or a valid Date object
map_type	one of "skewt" for Skew-T, "stuve" for Stuve, "stuve10" for Stuve to 10 mb, "stuve700" for Stuve to 700 mb, "hodo" for Hodograph. Defaults to "skewt"
map_format	one of "gif" or "pdf". Default is "gif"
include_frost	if TRUE, include frost point calculations. Default: FALSE
region	one of "naconf", "samer", "pac", "nz", "ant", "np", "europe", "africa", "seasia", "mideast" (which matches the values of the drop-down menu on the site). Use get_region_codes() to get a mapping of region names to valid region codes.
from_hr, to_hr	one of 00 (or 0), 12 or all; if all then both values will be set to all

Value

a magick object containing the gif or pdf requested.

Note

the PDF may be blank or the result may be NULL (if a GIF was requested) if there is no data for a given day.

hrbrmstr/unsound documentation built on May 20, 2019, 5:42 p.m.