gis_windfield: gis_windfield

In ropensci/rrricanes: Web Scraper for Atlantic and East Pacific Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

gis_windfield

Description

Advisory Wind Field and Forecast Wind Radii

Usage

gis_windfield(key, advisory = as.character())

Arguments

key	Key of storm (i.e., AL012008, EP092015)
advisory	Advisory number. If NULL, all advisories are returned. Intermediate advisories are acceptable.

Details

Tropical Cyclone Advisory Wind Field http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/archive_forecast_info_results.php?id=al14&year =2016 http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/forecast/archive/ Example file name: al012017_fcst_001.zip [basin]2[year_num]2[year]4_fcst_[advisory]3.zip Many storms do not appear to have this data; especially earlier.

Not all advisories will be available for storms. For example, Hurricane Matthew (AL142016) is missing several advisories.

See Also

gis_download

ropensci/rrricanes documentation built on Oct. 14, 2023, 3:20 p.m.