Get Meteorological data — GetSMNData • metR

Downloads minimum and maximum temperature station data from Argentina's National Weather Service's public access. Data availability is not guaranteed so you are encouraged to check it on the website.

GetSMNData(
  date,
  type = c("hourly", "daily", "radiation"),
  bar = FALSE,
  cache = TRUE,
  file.dir = tempdir()
)

Source

https://ssl.smn.gob.ar/dpd/pron5d-calendario.php

Arguments

date: date vector of dates to fetch data
type: type of data to retrieve
bar: logical object indicating whether to show a progress bar
cache: logical indicating if the results should be saved on disk
file.dir: optional directory where to save and/or retrieve data

Value

For type = "hourly", a data.frame with observations of

date: date
t: temperature in degrees celsius
rh: relative humidity in %
slp: sea level pressure in hPa
dir: wind direction in clockwise degrees from 6 o'clock
V: wind magnitude in m/s
station: station name

For type = "daily", a data.frame with observations of

date: date
tmax: maximum daily temperature in degrees celsius
tmin: minimum daily temperature in degrees celsius
station: station name

For type = "radiation", a data.frame with observations of

date: date
global: global radiation in W/m^2
diffuse: diffuse radiation in W/m^2
station: station name

Examples

if (FALSE) {
dates <- seq.Date(lubridate::today() - 30, lubridate::today(), by = "1 day")
data <- GetSMNData(dates, type = "daily", bar = TRUE)

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(subset(data, station == "BASE BELGRANO II"),
       aes(date, (tmax + tmin)/2)) +
    geom_line()
}