weatherOz: An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources

Provides automated downloading, parsing and formatting of weather data for Australia through API endpoints provided by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development ('DPIRD') of Western Australia and by the Science and Technology Division of the Queensland Government's Department of Environment and Science ('DES'). As well as the Bureau of Meteorology ('BOM') of the Australian government precis and coastal forecasts, and downloading and importing radar and satellite imagery files. 'DPIRD' weather data are accessed through public 'APIs' provided by 'DPIRD', https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/weather-api-20, providing access to weather station data from the 'DPIRD' weather station network. Australia-wide weather data are based on data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology ('BOM') data and accessed through 'SILO' (Scientific Information for Land Owners) Jeffrey et al. (2001) doi:10.1016/S1364-8152(01)00008-1 . 'DPIRD' data are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence (CC BY 3.0 AU) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en. SILO data are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 'BOM' data are (c) Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology and released under a Creative Commons (CC) Attribution 3.0 licence or Public Access Licence ('PAL') as appropriate, see http://www.bom.gov.au/other/copyright.shtml for further details.

See also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/ropensci/weatherOz/

• https://docs.ropensci.org/weatherOz/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/weatherOz/issues

Author

Maintainer: Rodrigo Pires rodrigo.pires@dpird.wa.gov.au (ORCID)

Authors:

• Anna Hepworth anna.hepworth@gmail.com (ORCID)

• Rebecca O'Leary bec.oleary@curtin.edu.au

• Jonathan Carroll rpkg@jcarroll.com.au (ORCID)

• James Goldie me@jamesgoldie.dev (ORCID)

• Dean Marchiori deanmarchiori@gmail.com (ORCID)

• Paul Melloy paul@melloy.com.au (ORCID)

• Mark Padgham mark.padgham@email.com (ORCID)

• Hugh Parsonage hugh.parsonage@gmail.com (ORCID)

• Adam H. Sparks adamhsparks@gmail.com (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• Keith Pembleton keith.pembleton@unisq.edu.au (ORCID) (Contributed code and ideas for original 'bomrang' package that was used in the creation of 'weatherOz'.) [contributor]

• Maëlle Salmon maelle.salmon@yahoo.se (ORCID) (Contributed to debugging a nasty little bug with CI where timezones caused tests to fail due to 'vcr' not recognising the URL when run outside of Australia/Perth TZ! Suggested the use of `withr::local_timzeone()`, see <https://github.com/ropensci/weatherOz/commit/b052bf91973b8d7e147a39e8938405a64622634b>.) [contributor]

• Max Moldovan max.moldovan@adelaide.edu.au (ORCID) (Contributed valuable feedback on package usage leading to improvements in the package structure and functionality.) [contributor]

• Jimmy Ng jimmy.ng@dpird.wa.gov.au [contributor]

• Steve Collins steve.collins@dpird.wa.gov.au (Designed the hex logo for 'weatherOz' hex logo.) [contributor]

• Laurens Geffert laurensgeffert@gmail.com [reviewer]

• Sam Rogers sam.rogers@adelaide.edu.au [reviewer]

• Western Australia Agriculture Authority (WAAA) [copyright holder]

• Curtin University [copyright holder]