Download and Return a data.table Object of GSOD Weather Station Data Inventories

The NCEI maintains a document, https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/isd-inventory.txt, which lists the number of weather observations by station-year-month from the beginning of the stations' records. This function retrieves that document and prints an information header displaying the last update time with a data frame of the inventory information for each station-year-month.

Usage

get_inventory()

Value

A data.table object of station inventories

Note

While GSODR does not distribute GSOD weather data, users of the data should note the conditions that the U.S. NCEI places upon the GSOD data. “The following data and products may have conditions placed on their international commercial use. They can be used within the U.S. or for non- commercial international activities without restriction. The non-U.S. data cannot be redistributed for commercial purposes. Re-distribution of these data by others must provide this same notification. A log of IP addresses accessing these data and products will be maintained and may be made available to data providers.”

Author

Adam H. Sparks, adamhsparks@gmail.com

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
inventory <- get_inventory()
inventory
}