Fetch the BOM daily Coastal Waters Forecast for a specified state or region.
Arguments
- state
Australian state or territory as full name or postal code. Fuzzy string matching via
base::agrep()is done. Defaults toAUSreturning all state forecasts, see details for further information.
Value
A data.table::data.table() of an Australia BOM Coastal Waters
Forecast.
Details
Allowed state and territory postal codes, only one state per request or all using 'AUS':
- AUS
Australia, returns forecast for all states, NT and ACT
- ACT
Australian Capital Territory (will return NSW)
- NSW
New South Wales
- NT
Northern Territory
- QLD
Queensland
- SA
South Australia
- TAS
Tasmania
- VIC
Victoria
- WA
Western Australia
References
Forecast data come from Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Weather Data
Services
http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml.
And also,
Location data and other metadata come from the BOM anonymous
FTP server with spatial data
ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/, specifically the
DBF file portion of a shapefile,
ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/IDM00003.dbf.
See also
Other BOM:
find_forecast_towns(),
get_ag_bulletin(),
get_available_imagery(),
get_available_radar(),
get_precis_forecast(),
get_radar_imagery(),
get_satellite_imagery(),
parse_ag_bulletin(),
parse_coastal_forecast(),
parse_precis_forecast()
Other data fetching:
get_ag_bulletin(),
get_data_drill(),
get_data_drill_apsim(),
get_dpird_apsim(),
get_dpird_extremes(),
get_dpird_minute(),
get_dpird_summaries(),
get_patched_point(),
get_patched_point_apsim(),
get_precis_forecast(),
get_radar_imagery(),
get_satellite_imagery()
Author
Dean Marchiori, deanmarchiori@gmail.com, and Paul Melloy, paul@melloy.com.au