worldmet: Import Surface Meteorological Data from NOAA Integrated Surface Database (ISD)

Functions to import data from more than 30,000 surface meteorological sites around the world managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Integrated Surface Database (ISD, see https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/integrated-surface-database).

Details

This package contains functions to import surface meteorological data from over 30,000 sites around the world. These data are curated by NOAA as part of the Integrated Surface Database (ISD).

If you access these data using the worldmet package please give full acknowledgement to NOAA ISD. Users should also take a note of the usage restrictions.

These data work well with the openair package that has been developed to analyse air pollution data.

References

For general information of the ISD see https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/integrated-surface-database and the map here https://gis.ncdc.noaa.gov/maps/ncei.

See also

See https://github.com/davidcarslaw/openair for information on the related openair package.

Author

Maintainer: David Carslaw david.carslaw@york.ac.uk (ORCID)