Get weather radar metadata — weather

Gets weather radar metadata from OPERA and/or NEXRAD.

Usage

weather_radars(source = c("opera"), use_cache = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

source: Source of the metadata. "opera", "nexrad" or "all".
use_cache: Logical indicating whether to use the cache. Default is TRUE. If FALSE the cache is ignored and the file is fetched anew. This can also be useful if you want to force a refresh of the cache.
...: Additional arguments passed on to reading functions per source, currently not used.

Value

A tibble with weather radar metadata. In all cases the column source is added to indicate the source of the data and radar to show the radar identifiers used in other functions like get_pvol() and get_vpts().

Details

The source files for this function are:

For opera: OPERA_RADARS_DB.json and OPERA_RADARS_ARH_DB.json.
For nexrad: nexrad-stations.txt.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# Get radar metadata from OPERA
weather_radars(source = "opera")

# Get radar metadata from NEXRAD
weather_radars(source = "nexrad")
}