nearest_stations_nooa: List of nearby SYNOP stations for a defined geographical location
Description
Returns a data frame of meteorological stations with their coordinates and distance from a given location based on the noaa website.
The returned list is valid only for a given day.
Usage
nearest_stations_nooa(
country,
date = Sys.Date(),
add_map = TRUE,
point = NULL,
no_of_stations = 10,
...
)
Value
A data.frame with number of nearest station according to given point columns describing stations parameters
(e.g. ID station, distance from point, geographic coordinates, etc.) where each row represent a measurement,
each station which has a measurements on selected date. If add_map = TRUE additional map of downloaded data is added.
Arguments
country
country name; use CAPITAL LETTERS (e.g., "SRI LANKA"), if not used function will found selected
number of nearest stations without country classification
date
optionally, a day when measurements were done in all available locations; current Sys.Date used by default
add_map
logical - whether to draw a map for a returned data frame (requires maps/mapdata packages)
point
a vector of two coordinates (longitude, latitude) for a point we want to find nearest stations to (e.g. c(80, 6))
no_of_stations
how many nearest stations will be returned from the given geographical coordinates
...
extra arguments to be provided to the graphics::plot() function (only if add_map = TRUE)