Locating Met Sites

library(worldmet)

Show all sites

The function to use to find which sites are available is getMeta(). While this function can be run using different options, it can be easiest to run it without any options. This produces a map of all the available sites, which can be quickly accessed.

Click to expand the markers until you find the site of interest (shown by a blue marker). This reveals some site information including the site name and the start and end date of available data. The most important information revealed in the marker is the code, which is used to access the data.

getMeta()
#> # A tibble: 13,173 × 12
#>    usaf  wban  station ctry  st    call  latitude longitude `elev(m)` begin     
#>    <chr> <chr> <chr>   <chr> <chr> <chr>    <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl> <date>    
#>  1 0100… 99999 EDGEOYA NO    <NA>  <NA>      78.2      22.8      14   1973-01-01
#>  2 0100… 99999 NY-ALE… SV    <NA>  <NA>      78.9      11.9       7.7 1973-01-06
#>  3 0100… 99999 LONGYE… SV    <NA>  ENSB      78.2      15.5      26.8 1975-09-29
#>  4 0100… 99999 KARL X… SV    <NA>  <NA>      80.6      25         5   1955-01-01
#>  5 0101… 99999 ANDOYA  NO    <NA>  ENAN      69.3      16.1      13.1 1931-01-03
#>  6 0101… 99999 KVITOYA SV    <NA>  <NA>      80.1      31.5      10   1986-11-18
#>  7 0101… 99999 HEKKIN… NO    <NA>  <NA>      69.6      17.8      14   1980-03-14
#>  8 0101… 99999 KONGSO… NO    <NA>  <NA>      78.9      28.9      20   1993-05-01
#>  9 0101… 99999 AKSELO… SV    <NA>  <NA>      77.7      14.8       6   1973-01-01
#> 10 0102… 99999 SORKAP… SV    <NA>  <NA>      76.5      16.6      10   2010-10-08
#> # ℹ 13,163 more rows
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: end <date>, code <chr>