worldmet

open source tools to access NOAA meteorological observations

worldmet provides an easy way to access data from the NOAA Global Historical Climate Network and the NOAA Integrated Surface Database (ISD). The ISD contains detailed surface meteorological data from around the world for over 35,000 locations. See also the map. The package outputs (typically hourly meteorological data) work very well with the openair package.

Part of the openair toolkit

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💡 Core Features

worldmet has a small handful of core functionality.

• Access metadata using import_ghcn_stations().

• Import monitoring data using import_ghcn_hourly(). Data is in a format ready to use with, for example, openair::windRose().

• Write files in ADMS format using write_adms().

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📖 Documentation

All worldmet functions are fully documented; access documentation using R in your IDE of choice.

?worldmet::import_ghcn_stations

Documentation is also hosted online on the package website.

A guide to the openair toolkit can be found in the online book, which contains lots of code snippets, demonstrations of functionality, and ideas for the application of openair's various functions.

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🗃️ Installation

worldmet can be installed from CRAN with:

install.packages("worldmet")

You can also install the development version of worldmet from GitHub using {pak}:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("openair-project/worldmet")

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🏛️ worldmet is primarily maintained by David Carslaw.

📃 worldmet is licensed under the MIT License.

🧑‍💻 Contributions are welcome from the wider community. See the contributing guide and code of conduct for more information.