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Advisory Wind Field and Forecast Wind Radii

Usage

gis_windfield(key, advisory = as.character())

Arguments

key

Key of storm (i.e., AL012008, EP092015)

advisory

Advisory number. If NULL, all advisories are returned. Intermediate advisories are acceptable.

Details

Tropical Cyclone Advisory Wind Field http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/archive_forecast_info_results.php?id=al14&year=2016 http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/forecast/archive/ Example file name: al012017_fcst_001.zip [basin]2[year_num]2[year]4_fcst_[advisory]3.zip Many storms do not appear to have this data; especially earlier.

Not all advisories will be available for storms. For example, Hurricane Matthew (AL142016) is missing several advisories.

See also