Find USDA NRCS Snotel Stations

Source: R/findSnotel.R

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


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)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
CA.sno = getAOI(state = 'CA') %>% findSnotel()
# }