get_station_metadata: Get a table of metadata for meteorological stations
In rich-iannone/stationaRy: Detailed Meteorological Data from Stations All Over the World

Obtain a tibble containing information on all of the stations that have data.

1	get_station_metadata()

Returns a tibble with 16 columns.

id: A character string that is a unique identifier for the weather station.
usaf: A character string identifying the fixed weather station from the USAF Master Station Catalog. USAF is an acronym for United States Air Force.
wban: A character string for the fixed weather station NCDC WBAN identifier. NCDC is an acronym for National Climatic Data Center. WBAN is an acronym for Weather Bureau, Air Force and Navy.
name: A character string with the station name.
country: A character string with the two character country code where the station is located. Not identical to country_code.
state: Character string of the two character abbreviation of a US state (when applicable).
icao: The ICAO identifier for the station.
lat: Latitude (degrees) rounded to three decimal places.
lon: Longitude (degrees) rounded to three decimal places.
elev: Numeric value for the elevation as measured in meters. The minimum value is -400 with a maximum of 8850. Elevation in feet can be approximated by elev * 3.28084
begin_date: The earliest date for which data are available.
end_date: The latest date for which data are available.
begin_year: The earliest year for which data are available.
end_year: The latest year for which data are available.
tz_name: The time zone name.

1 2	# Obtain a data frame with all available met stations get_station_metadata()

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