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pmetar

Package allows to download current and historical METAR weatherreports and decode basic parameters.

METAR weather reportssource web pages

The main functions scrap data from the below web pages:

1. For current reports, the functionmetar_get:

• Aviation Weather Centerhttps://aviationweather.gov/data/metar/

2. For historical reports, the functionmetar_get_historical:

• Iowa Environmental Mesonet web page of Iowa State UniversityASOS-AWOS-METARhttp://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/AWOS/
• Weather Information Servicehttp://www.ogimet.com/ developed by Guillermo BallesterValor

Please take into consideration that thehttp://www.ogimet.com/ canblock too frequent requests for data due to the server overload.

Locations of METAR stations

Information about the locations of the METAR stations / ariports weretaken from two sources:

1. The first choice is the file fromhttps://ourairports.com/data/ created by DavidMegginson.
2. If information can’t be found, the second source is searched, theADDS Station Table prepared by Greg Thompson NCAR/RAP. The file isavailable on the web page of Aviation Weather Centerhttps://weather.ral.ucar.edu/surface/stations.txt fromNOAA National Weather Servicehttps://www.weather.gov/

The both above data sources are in the public domain.

install.packages("pmetar")

# install.packages("devtools")devtools::install_github("prcwiek/pmetar",ref ="develop")

library('pmetar')