Collates Metadata for Climate Surface Stations


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Metadata-package Metadata collates a collection of metadata for climate stations
AIRPORT.FILE A file of airport locations
AIRPORT.RASTER File name of a raster of airport locations
AIRPORTS.URL url to the airport locations file
AIRPORTS_DIR Directory name for Aiport data
BLUEWATER.FILE File name of blue water file
BLUEWATER.RASTER A raster created from shapefile of blue water.
BLUEWATER.URL Url to blue water irrigation data
BLUEWTR_DIR bluewater datafile directory
collateMetadata collates metadata for a vector of lat/lon locations
COVER.TYPE text translations of land cover types
createDirectories creates the directories prior to download
createRasters creates a series of rasters from source data
CULTIVATED.FILE File name of land use data
CULTIVATED.URL Url of data for land use
downloads Function to download metadata files
FOREST.FILE File name for land use data
FOREST.URL Url to land use data
GMT.FILE Filename for distance from coast data
GMT.URL Url for distance from coast data
GMT_DIR Directory for coast data from Nasa
GPW.FILE file name of Global Population file
GPW.URL url for Gridded Population of the World V3. global population data
GPW_DIR directory for GPW population data
GRASS.URL URL to land use land cover data
GRASSLAND.FILE Filename for land use data
GRMPURB.URL Url for GRUMP urban extent
GRMPURB_DIR Directory for GRUMP urban extent data
GRUMP.FILE Filename for GRUMP urban extent
HYDE.RASTER A raster of population density
HYDE.RURAL.RASTER File name of Hyde rural population
HYDE.URBAN.RASTER File name for raster of hyde urban population data
HYDE.URL URl for Hyde data
HYDE_DIR directory for Hyde 3.1 population data
IRRIGATED.FILE Filename for irrigation data
IRRIGATED.URL URL for irrigated data file
ISA.FILE Filename of Isa file
ISA.RASTER filename for ISA raster data
ISA.URL Url to ISA data
ISA_DIR Directory for ISA data
LANDUSE.RASTER filename for a raster of all the land use source files
LIGHTS.FILE filename of the nightlights file
LND.URL Url to land cover data
LND_DIR Directory for land cover data
LULC_DIR Directory for Land Use and Land Cover data
Metadata Metadata collates a collection of metadata for climate stations
missingWarn a function to create a filename and warn if files are missing
MODIS.BINARY.RASTER filename of a specialize modis file
MODIS.COVER.TYPE textual descriptions of land covers for Modis
MODIS.FILE Filename of the modis data
MODIS.RASTER filename for the modis raster
MODIS.URL Url to Modis data
MODIS_DIR Directory for Modis 500m data
NAVO.BZ.FILE filename of the compressed version of coast data
NAVO.FILE File name of coast data
NAVO.URL Url to land mask/distance to coast data
NAVO_DIR default directory for coast data
NIGHT.URL Url to Nightlights data
NIGHT_DIR directory for nightlights
NVG.FILE Filename for land use data. Sparse or no vegetation
RAINFED.FILE filename of the cultivated land fed by rainfall
RAINFED.URL Url for cultivated land rainfed
readWMO a function to read WMO station inventory
SPARSE.URL Url for data file
URBAN.LAND.FILE Filename for urban land use
URBAN.URL url to dataset
WMO.URL Url to WMO station metadata