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inmetr: Historical Data from Brazilian Meteorological Stations in R

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Overview

inmetr provide access to historical data measured by meteorological stations available in the Meteorological Database for Education and Research (BDMEP) from National Institute of Meteorology (Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia - INMET), Brazil.

Installation

inmetr is easy to install from Git Hub using the devtools package.

library(devtools)
install_github('lhmet/inmetr')

Load package

library(inmetr)

Stations ID

To search a meteorological station from INMET we can use metadata of INMET stations included in inmetr package as bdmep_meta.

head(bdmep_meta)
#>      id       lon        lat    alt            name   state uf
#> 1 83010 -68.73333 -11.016667 260.00       Brasiléia    Acre AC
#> 2 82704 -72.66667  -7.633333 170.00 Cruzeiro do Sul    Acre AC
#> 3 82915 -67.80000  -9.966667 160.00      Rio Branco    Acre AC
#> 4 82807 -70.76667  -8.166667 190.00        Tarauacá    Acre AC
#> 5 83098 -36.16667 -10.150000  56.13        Coruripe Alagoas AL
#> 6 82994 -35.70000  -9.666667  64.50          Maceió Alagoas AL
#>            time_zone offset_utc
#> 1 America/Rio_Branco         -5
#> 2 America/Rio_Branco         -5
#> 3 America/Rio_Branco         -5
#> 4 America/Rio_Branco         -5
#> 5     America/Maceio         -3
#> 6     America/Maceio         -3
tail(bdmep_meta)
#>        id       lon        lat    alt           name     state uf
#> 389 83033 -48.30000 -10.183333 280.00         Palmas Tocantins TO
#> 390 83231 -47.83333 -12.550000 275.00         Paranã Tocantins TO
#> 391 82863 -48.18333  -8.966667 187.00   Pedro Afonso Tocantins TO
#> 392 83228 -48.35000 -12.016667 242.49          Peixe Tocantins TO
#> 393 83064 -48.41667 -10.716667 239.20 Porto Nacional Tocantins TO
#> 394 83235 -46.41667 -12.400000 603.59     Taguatinga Tocantins TO
#>             time_zone offset_utc
#> 389 America/Araguaina         -3
#> 390 America/Araguaina         -3
#> 391 America/Araguaina         -3
#> 392 America/Araguaina         -3
#> 393 America/Araguaina         -3
#> 394 America/Araguaina         -3

bdmep_meta data provide the id of stations, a numeric code defined by OMM. This id is a necessary argument to bdmep_import() function which allows to download data from meteorological stations into the R.

Here, we show how to find the OMM code for meteorological stations at two cities (randomly sampled).

#stations <- c("SANTA MARIA", "PORTO ALEGRE")
# random sample of two stations names 
stations <- sample(bdmep_meta$name,2)
stations_rows <- pmatch(stations, bdmep_meta$name)
bdmep_meta[stations_rows, ]
#>        id       lon       lat alt           name          state uf
#> 366 83774 -48.88333 -23.95000 707        Itapeva      São Paulo SP
#> 77  83043 -40.73333 -20.63333 110 Alfredo Chaves Espírito Santo ES
#>             time_zone offset_utc
#> 366 America/Sao_Paulo         -3
#> 77  America/Sao_Paulo         -3
stns_codes <- bdmep_meta[stations_rows, "id"] 
stns_codes
#> [1] "83774" "83043"

Import data

Now we can import data for the two cities from 1961 to the current date.

start_date <- "01/01/1961"
end_date <- format(Sys.Date(), "%d/%m/%Y")
met_data <- bdmep_import(id = stns_codes,
                         sdate = start_date, 
                         edate = end_date, 
                         email = "your-email",
                         passwd = "your-password",
                         verbose = TRUE)
#> 
#> ------------------------------
#> station: 83774
#> OK (HTTP 200).
#> 
#> ------------------------------
#> station: 83043
#> OK (HTTP 200).
# check de start date
head(met_data)
#>                  date    id prec tair   tw tmax tmin urmax  patm pnmm wd
#> 1 1961-01-01 00:00:00 83774   NA   NA   NA 26.0   NA    NA    NA   NA NA
#> 2 1961-01-01 12:00:00 83774   NA 20.0 19.6   NA 17.2    96 934.2   NA 14
#> 3 1961-01-01 18:00:00 83774   NA 24.9 21.4   NA   NA    73 932.3   NA 14
#> 4 1961-01-02 00:00:00 83774   NA 21.2 20.8 26.4   NA    96 933.2   NA 18
#> 5 1961-01-02 12:00:00 83774 31.9 20.6 20.2   NA 17.0    97 933.0   NA  0
#> 6 1961-01-02 18:00:00 83774   NA 24.4 21.8   NA   NA    78 932.0   NA 32
#>   wsmax  n cc evap    ur       ws    request_status
#> 1    NA NA NA  4.4 90.25 2.333333 Success: (200) OK
#> 2     3 NA 10   NA    NA       NA Success: (200) OK
#> 3     3 NA 10   NA    NA       NA Success: (200) OK
#> 4     1 NA 10  3.4 88.75 1.000000 Success: (200) OK
#> 5     0 NA  9   NA    NA       NA Success: (200) OK
#> 6     3 NA 10   NA    NA       NA Success: (200) OK
# check de end date
tail(met_data)
#>                      date    id prec tair tw tmax tmin urmax patm pnmm wd
#> 45260 2007-01-13 12:00:00 83043 42.2   NA NA   NA 20.2    NA   NA   NA NA
#> 45261 2007-01-14 00:00:00 83043   NA   NA NA 26.2   NA    NA   NA   NA NA
#> 45262 2007-01-14 12:00:00 83043  3.2   NA NA   NA 22.0    NA   NA   NA NA
#> 45263 2007-01-15 00:00:00 83043   NA   NA NA 30.6   NA    NA   NA   NA NA
#> 45264 2007-01-15 12:00:00 83043  3.0   NA NA   NA 21.6    NA   NA   NA NA
#> 45265 2007-01-16 00:00:00 83043   NA   NA NA 24.6   NA    NA   NA   NA NA
#>       wsmax  n cc evap ur ws    request_status
#> 45260    NA NA NA   NA NA NA Success: (200) OK
#> 45261    NA NA NA  1.5 NA NA Success: (200) OK
#> 45262    NA NA NA   NA NA NA Success: (200) OK
#> 45263    NA NA NA  1.5 NA NA Success: (200) OK
#> 45264    NA NA NA   NA NA NA Success: (200) OK
#> 45265    NA NA NA  2.5 NA NA Success: (200) OK

You can save data in a CSV file setting destdir = "path/to/write/files" in bdmep_import function. Data will be save one file per station.

A description of meteorological variables can be obtained by bdmep_description().

bdmep_description()
#>           varname                            description  unit
#> 1            date              date and time information     -
#> 2              id                             station ID     -
#> 3            prec                          precipitation    mm
#> 4            tair                        air temperature deg C
#> 5              tw                   wet bulb temperature deg C
#> 6            tmax                maximum air temperature deg C
#> 7            tmin                minimum air temperature deg C
#> 8           urmax              maximum relative humidity     %
#> 9            patm                   atmospheric pressure   hPa
#> 10           pnmm    mean sea level atmospheric pressure   hPa
#> 11             wd                         wind direction   deg
#> 12          wsmax                              wind gust   m/s
#> 13              n                         sunshine hours     h
#> 14             cc                            cloud cover     -
#> 15           evap                            evaporation    mm
#> 16             ur                      relative humidity     %
#> 17             ws                             wind speed   m/s
#> 18 request_status Information on the status of a request  <NA>

Eventually, if the request failed a message will be prompted with the HTTP status code, for example:

------------------------
station: 83774
Bad Gateway (HTTP 502).
------------------------
station: 83043
Bad Gateway (HTTP 502).

In this case the outcome data frame will be filled with NA, except for request_status which will return information on the request status.

#>   date    id prec tair tw tmax tmin urmax patm pnmm wd wsmax  n cc evap ur
#> 1   NA 83774   NA   NA NA   NA   NA    NA   NA   NA NA    NA NA NA   NA NA
#> 2   NA 83043   NA   NA NA   NA   NA    NA   NA   NA NA    NA NA NA   NA NA
#>   ws          request_status
#> 1 NA Bad Gateway (HTTP 502).
#> 2 NA Bad Gateway (HTTP 502).

To cite this software

citation("inmetr")

To cite package 'inmetr' in publications use:

  Tatsch, J.D. 2017. inmetr R package (v 0.2.5): Historical Data
  from Brazilian Meteorological Stations in R. Zenodo.
  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.580813.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {inmetr: Historical Data from Brazilian Meteorological Stations in R},
    author = {Jonatan Tatsch},
    year = {2017},
    note = {R package version 0.2.5},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.580813},
    institution = {Universidade Federal de Santa Maria-UFSM},
    url = {https://github.com/lhmet/inmetr},
  }


jdtatsch/inmetr documentation built on May 18, 2019, 11:37 p.m.