rclimateca

This package is designed to be an R interface to various Environment Canada datasets, including the historical climate data archive. In the future, the package may also provide access to hydrometric data using the same interface (currently in the form of the hydatr package.

Installation

You can install rclimateca from CRAN with:

install.packages("rclimateca")

Or the development version from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("paleolimbot/rclimateca")

If you can load the package, everything worked!

library(rclimateca)

Example

The workflow for which this rclimateca is designed is as follows:

1. Find climate stations using ec_climate_search_locations() or ec_climate_geosearch_locations().
2. Download the data using ec_climate_data() or ec_climate_mudata().

For example, to find recent daily data for a location close to Wolfville, Nova Scotia, one might do the following::

ec_climate_geosearch_locations(
  "Wolfville NS", timeframe = "daily",
  year = 2017, limit = 5
)
#> Search results for ec_climate_geosearch_locations(
#>   query = "Wolfville NS"
#>   timeframe = "daily"
#>   year = 2017
#>   limit = 5
#> ) 
#> [1] WHITE ROCK NS 6507 / 4.7 km (daily 1977-2017)           
#> [2] KENTVILLE CDA CS NS 27141 / 9.4 km (daily 1996-2018)    
#> [3] WATERVILLE CAMBRIDGE NS 6497 / 22.9 km (daily 1980-2017)
#> [4] PARRSBORO NS 43183 / 35.5 km (daily 2004-2018)          
#> [5] GREENWOOD A NS 6354 / 45.4 km (daily 1942-2018)

ec_climate_data(
  "WHITE ROCK NS 6507", timeframe = "daily",
  start = "2017-01-01", end = "2017-12-31"
)
#> # A tibble: 365 x 29
#>             dataset           location  year month   day       date
#>               <chr>              <chr> <int> <int> <int>     <date>
#>  1 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1     1 2017-01-01
#>  2 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1     2 2017-01-02
#>  3 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1     3 2017-01-03
#>  4 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1     4 2017-01-04
#>  5 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1     5 2017-01-05
#>  6 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1     6 2017-01-06
#>  7 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1     7 2017-01-07
#>  8 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1     8 2017-01-08
#>  9 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1     9 2017-01-09
#> 10 ec_climate_daily WHITE ROCK NS 6507  2017     1    10 2017-01-10
#> # ... with 355 more rows, and 23 more variables: data_quality <chr>,
#> #   max_temp_c <dbl>, max_temp_flag <chr>, min_temp_c <dbl>,
#> #   min_temp_flag <chr>, mean_temp_c <dbl>, mean_temp_flag <chr>,
#> #   heat_deg_days_c <dbl>, heat_deg_days_flag <chr>,
#> #   cool_deg_days_c <dbl>, cool_deg_days_flag <chr>, total_rain_mm <dbl>,
#> #   total_rain_flag <chr>, total_snow_cm <dbl>, total_snow_flag <chr>,
#> #   total_precip_mm <dbl>, total_precip_flag <chr>, snow_on_grnd_cm <dbl>,
#> #   snow_on_grnd_flag <chr>, dir_of_max_gust_10s_deg <dbl>,
#> #   dir_of_max_gust_flag <chr>, spd_of_max_gust_km_h <dbl>,
#> #   spd_of_max_gust_flag <chr>

More information

See vignette("ec_climate", package = "rclimateca") and ?ec_climate_data for more information about using rclimateca with the Environment Canada historical climate archive.