cimishourly {cimis}R Documentation

Retrieve hourly data from CIMIS

Description

Retrieves hourly data from CIMIS servers.

Usage

cimishourly(station, units = "imp")

Arguments

station station ID, in quotes. See stnlist
units either "imp" for imperial units or "SI" for SI units. Defaults to "imp"

Value

A 192 x 16 data frame. Returns hourly weather data for the last 7 days.

Note

Thank you to Dylan Beaudette at California Soil Resource Lab for inspiration and parsing. http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/38, http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/676

Author(s)

Greg Hirson <ghirson@ucdavis.edu>

References

http://www.cimis.water.ca.gov/cimis/welcome.jsp

See Also

cimisdaily, cimismonthly, cimisannual

Examples

##Recent hourly solar radiation in Davis, CA
weather = cimishourly("006")
plot(solar_rad ~ datetime, data = weather, type = "l",
   xlab = "Time", ylab = "Solar Radiation",
   main = "Recent solar radiation in Davis, CA")

[Package cimis version 0.1-3 Index]