stations_ogimet: Scrapping a list of meteorological (Synop) stations for a defined country from the Ogimet webpage
Description
Returns a list of meteorological stations with their coordinates from the Ogimet webpage. The returned list is valid only for a given day
Usage
stations_ogimet(country = "United+Kingdom", date = Sys.Date(), add_map = FALSE)
Value
A data.frame with columns describing the synoptic stations in selected countries where each row represent a statation.
If add_map = TRUE additional map of downloaded data is added.
Arguments
country
country name; for more than two words they need to be seperated with a plus character (e.g. "United+Kingdom")
date
a day when measurements were done in all available locations
add_map
logical - whether to draw a map with downloaded metadata (requires maps/mapdata packages)