GetNWCSnowPoints: Get and unpack National Water Center SWE and snow depth point...

In mccreigh/rwrfhydro: R tools for the WRF Hydro Model

Description

GetNWCSnowPoints Get and unpack National Water Center snow observations for a given hour and unpack the data. Data is stored in text file format.

Usage

GetNWCSnowPoints(datePOSIXct, outDir = ".", overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = TRUE)

Arguments

datePOSIXct	the date in POSIXct format for which the data is desired. The format needs to be YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.
outDir	The directory where the data is to be archived. This directory is checked to see if the data exist when overwrite=FALSE
overwrite	when false: If depth and SWE files exist on disk, don't grab the zip file. When false: If the zip file exists on disk but depth and SWE files don't, just unzip the zip files. When true: Pull new zip and overwrite any existing files with the same date.
quiet	logical passed to curl , to show it's progress.

Value

Logical was the file "got".

Examples

## Not run: 
NWCSnowGot <- GetNWCSnowPoints(as.POSIXct('2015-02-01 12:00:00'),
 outDir = '/home/karsten/snow_obs')
 
## End(Not run)

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