findSnotel: Find USDA NRCS Snotel Stations

In mikejohnson51/HydroData: HydroData

Description

findSnotel returns a SpatialPointsDataFrame* Objects cropped to an Area of Interest. Station data is extacted from NRCS reports and contains 11 attributes:

• 'NETWORK' : integer Description of Network (all = 'SNTL')

• 'STATE' : character The state the station is located in

• 'NAME': POSITct Unique station name

• 'ID' : character Unique identifier assigned by NRCS

• 'START.DATE' : character Date the station made first measurment ("Year-Month")

• 'LAT' : numeric Latitude of station, decimil degrees

• 'LON' : numeric Longitude of station, decimil degrees

• 'ELEV' : character Elevation of station

• 'COUNTY' : integer The county the station is located in

• 'HUC12.NAME': character The HUC12 name the station is located in

• 'HUC12.ID': character The HUC12 ID the station is located in

Usage

findSnotel(AOI = NULL, ids = FALSE)

Arguments

AOI	A Spatial* or simple features geometry, can be piped from getAOI
ids	If TRUE, a vector of NHD COMIDs is added to retuned list (default = FALSE)

Author(s)

Mike Johnson

Examples

## Not run: 
CA.sno = getAOI(state = 'CA') %>% findSnotel()

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