Find stations from the Automated Surface Observing System

Source: R/findASOS.R

Query station information from the automated surface observing systems (ASOS) API. findASOS returns a SpatailPointsDataframe of all stations within an AOI. Some stations have data dating back 1901. All data comes from NOAA and includes the following attributes:

  • 'USAF' : character Air Force station ID. May contain a letter in the first position.

  • 'WBAN' : character NCDC WBAN number

  • 'NAME' : integer Station Name

  • 'CTRY' : integer FIPS country ID

  • 'ST' : character State for US stations

  • 'ICAO' : integer ICAO Airport ID

  • 'Start' : integer Beginning Period Of Record (YYYY-MM-DD)

  • 'End' : integer Ending Period Of Record (YYYY-MM-DD)


findASOS(AOI, ids = FALSE)

Arguments

AOI

A Spatial* or simple features geometry, can be piped from getAOI
ids

If TRUE, a vector of unique Air Forces Station IDs is added to retuned list (default = FALSE)

Value

a list() of minimum length 2: AOI and and asos

Examples

# NOT RUN {
sta = getAOI(state = "CO", county = "El Paso") %>% findACIS()
# }