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weathercan is an R package for simplifying the downloading of Historical Climate Data from the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) website (https://climate.weather.gc.ca)

Details

Bear in mind that these downloads can be fairly large and performing repeated, large downloads may use up Environment Canada's bandwidth unnecessarily. Try to stick to what you need.

There are four main aspects of this package:

  1. Access stations lists

  2. Download weather data

  1. Merge weather data into other data sets through interpolation over time

  1. Download climate normals data

We also include several practice data sets:

As well as several vignettes:

Online we also have some advanced articles:

References

Environment and Climate Change Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change.html

Glossary of terms https://climate.weather.gc.ca/glossary_e.html

ECCC Historical Climate Data: https://climate.weather.gc.ca/