rOpenSci | Accessing, wrangling and plotting global weather data (for free!)
Reported on: Jan 30, 2020

Accessing, wrangling and plotting global weather data (for free!)

English • By Jasper Slingsby • Featuring: rnoaa, lawn

rOpenSci package or resource used*

rnoaa, lawn

URL or code snippet for your use case*

https://www.ecologi.st/post/weather/

Image

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Sector

academic

Field(s) of application

ecology, climatology, meteorology

What did you do?

Search, extract, wrangle and plot weather data from NOAA’s archives using South Africa as a use case. This is particularly valuable for South Africa because our national weather service charges for their data. Thanks @sckottie and others that have contributed to these packages!