rnoaa - Weather data in R

NOAA provides a lot of weather data, across many different websites under different project names. The R package rnoaa accesses many of these, including: NOAA NCDC climate data, using the NCDC API version 2 GHCND FTP data ISD FTP data Severe weather data docs are at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/swdiws/ Sea ice data NOAA buoy data Tornadoes! Data from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center HOMR - Historical Observing Metadata Repository - from NOAA NCDC Storm data - from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) rnoaa used to provide access to ERDDAP servers, but a separate package rerddap focuses on just those data sources....

July 7, 2015 · 12 min · Scott Chamberlain