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Installing rrricanesdata

Tim Trice

2022-04-13

Source: vignettes/installing_rrricanesdata.Rmd
installing_rrricanesdata.Rmd

With rrricanes you can access current and archived advisories as-issued from the National Hurricane Center archives. rrricanesdata is a complimentary data package meant to make it faster to get most data avialable from these storms.

Installing rrricanesdata is simple:

install.packages("rrricanesdata", 
                 repos = "https://timtrice.github.io/drat/", 
                 type = "source")

Data in rrricanesdata will be updated on the first of every month with a cutoff date of midnight on the last day of the month. So, advisories issued at any time during the current month will not be available; you will need to use any of rrricanes get_* functions.

Datasets

adv

  • Key: Unique identifier of cyclone
  • Adv: Advisory number
  • Date: Date and time of advisory
  • Status: Classification of cyclone
  • Name: Name of cyclone
  • Lat: Latitude of cyclone center
  • Lon: Longitude of cyclone center
  • Wind: Maximum sustained one-minute winds in knots
  • Gust: Maximum sustained one-minute gusts in knots
  • Pressure: Minimum central pressure in millibars
  • PosAcc: Position accuracy of cyclone in nautical miles
  • FwdDir: Compass angle of forward motion
  • FwdSpeed: Forward speed in miles per hour
  • Eye: Size of eye in nautical miles
  • SeasNE: Radius of 12ft seas in northeast quadrant
  • SeasSE: Radius of 12ft seas in southeast quadrant
  • SeasSW: Radius of 12ft seas in southwest quadrant
  • SeasNW: Radius of 12ft seas in northwest quadrant

discus

  • Status: Classification of storm, e.g., Tropical Storm, Hurricane, etc.
  • Name: Name of storm
  • Adv: Advisory Number
  • Date: Date of advisory issuance
  • Key: ID of cyclone
  • Contents: Text content of product

fcst

  • Key: Unique identifier of cyclone
  • Adv: Advisory number
  • Date: Date and time of advisory
  • FcstDate: Forecast date and time in UTC
  • Lat: Forecast latitude
  • Lon: Forecast Longitude
  • Wind: Forecast wind in knots
  • Gust: Forecast gust in knots

fcst_wr

  • Key: Unique identifier of cyclone
  • Adv: Advisory number
  • Date: Date and time of advisory
  • FcstDate: Forecast date and time in UTC
  • WindField: Minimum sustained wind field for quadrants
  • NE: Radius in nautical miles for northeast quadrant
  • SE: Radius in nautical miles for southeast quadrant
  • SW: Radius in nautical miles for southwest quadrant
  • NW: Radius in nautical miles for northwest quadrant

fstadv

  • Status: Classification of cyclone
  • Name: Name of cyclone
  • Adv: Advisory number
  • Date: Date and time of advisory
  • Key: Unique identifier of cyclone
  • Lat: Latitude of cyclone center
  • Lon: Longitude of cyclone center
  • Wind: Maximum sustained one-minute winds in knots
  • Gust: Maximum sustained one-minute gusts in knots
  • Pressure: Minimum central pressure in millibars
  • PosAcc: Position accuracy of cyclone in nautical miles
  • FwdDir: Compass angle of forward motion
  • FwdSpeed: Forward speed in miles per hour
  • Eye: Size of eye in nautical miles
  • NE64: Radius of >=64kt winds in northeast quadrant
  • SE64: Radius of >=64kt winds in southeast quadrant
  • SW64: Radius of >=64kt winds in southwest quadrant
  • NW64: Radius of >=64kt winds in northwest quadrant
  • NE50: Radius of >=50kt winds in northeast quadrant
  • SE50: Radius of >=50kt winds in southeast quadrant
  • SW50: Radius of >=50kt winds in southwest quadrant
  • NW50: Radius of >=50kt winds in northwest quadrant
  • NE34: Radius of >=34kt winds in northwest quadrant
  • SE34: Radius of >=34kt winds in southeast quadrant
  • SW34: Radius of >=34kt winds in southwest quadrant
  • NW34: Radius of >=34kt winds in northwest quadrant
  • Hr{n}FcstDate: Forecast valid date
  • Hr{n}Lat: Forecast latitude in n hours
  • Hr{n}Lon: Forecast longitude in n hours
  • Hr{n}Wind: Forecast maximum wind in n hours
  • Hr{n}Gust: Forecast maximum gust in n hours
  • Hr{n}NE64: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}SE64: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}SW64: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}NW64: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}NE50: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}SE50: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}SW50: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}NW50: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}NE34: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}SE34: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}SW34: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • Hr{n}NW34: Forecast wind radius in n hours
  • SeasNE: Radius of 12ft seas in northeast quadrant
  • SeasSE: Radius of 12ft seas in southeast quadrant
  • SeasSW: Radius of 12ft seas in southwest quadrant
  • SeasNW: Radius of 12ft seas in northwest quadrant

posest

  • Status: Classification of storm, e.g., Tropical Storm, Hurricane, etc.
  • Name: Name of storm
  • Date: Date of advisory issuance
  • Contents: Text content of product

prblty

  • Status: Classification of storm, e.g., Tropical Storm, Hurricane, etc.
  • Name: Name of storm
  • Adv: Advisory Number
  • Date: Date of advisory issuance
  • Location: Location for which the probability statistics rely
  • A: Probability of a strike within the next 12 hours
  • B: Probability of a strike between 12 and 24 hours
  • C: Probability of a strike between 24 and 36 hours
  • D: Probability of a strike between 36 and 48 hours
  • E: Probability of a strike between 48 and 72 hours

public

  • Status: Classification of storm, e.g., Tropical Storm, Hurricane, etc.
  • Name: Name of storm
  • Adv: Advisory Number
  • Date: Date of advisory issuance
  • Key: Unique ID of the cyclone
  • Contents: Text content of product

storms

  • Key: Storm ID
  • Name: Storm name
  • Wind: Peak wind speed in knots
  • StartDate: Date/time of first advisory
  • EndDate: Date/time of last advisory

update

  • Status: Classification of storm, e.g., Tropical Storm, Hurricane, etc.
  • Name: Name of storm
  • Date: Date of advisory issuance
  • Key: Unique ID of cyclone
  • Contents: Text content of product

wndprb

  • Status: Classification of storm, e.g., Tropical Storm, Hurricane, etc.
  • Name: Name of storm
  • Adv: Advisory Number
  • Date: Date of advisory issuance
  • Wind: Minimum wind speed for which probabilities reference
  • Wind12: Probability of sustained Wind within 12 hours
  • Wind24: Probability of sustained Wind within 24 hours
  • Wind24Cum: Cumulative probability through 24 hours
  • Wind36: Probability of sustained Wind within 36 hours
  • Wind36Cum: Cumulative probability through 36 hours
  • Wind48: Probability of sustained Wind within 48 hours
  • Wind48Cum: Cumulative probability through 48 hours
  • Wind72: Probability of sustained Wind within 72 hours
  • Wind72Cum: Cumulative probability through 72 hours
  • Wind96: Probability of sustained Wind within 96 hours
  • Wind96Cum: Cumulative probability through 96 hours
  • Wind120: Probability of sustained Wind within 120 hours
  • Wind120Cum: Cumulative probability through 120 hours

wr

  • Key: Unique identifier of cyclone
  • Adv: Advisory number
  • Date: Date and time of advisory
  • Windfield: Minimum wind speed expected
  • NE: Radius of Windfield in the northeast quadrant
  • SE: Radius of Windfield in the southeast quadrant
  • SW: Radius of Windfield in the southwest quadrant
  • NW: Radius of Windfield in the northwest quadrant