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get_NOAA_stations_nearXY

Query the NOAA API to get station data near a given latitude and longitude

Description

Query the NOAA API to get station data (limit 1000 records) near a point. Default extent is plus or minus 0.5 degrees (bounding box) (with bbox = 1) around the specified point [lat, lng].

In order to use this function, you must obtain an API token from this website: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/token

Usage

get_NOAA_stations_nearXY(lat, lng, apitoken, bbox = 1)

Arguments

`lat`	Latitude
`lng`	Longitude
`apitoken`	API key token for NOAA NCDC web service
`bbox`	Optional: Dimension of the bounding box centered at `lat`, `lng`.

Value

data.frame containing station information for all stations within a bounding box around lat, lng.

Examples

## in order to use this function, you must obtain an API token from this website:
##  https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/token

# stations <- get_NOAA_stations_nearXY(lat = 37, lng = -120,
#                                      apitoken = "yourtokenhere")

soilDB

Soil Database Interface

v2.6.1

GPL (>= 3)

Authors

Dylan Beaudette [aut], Jay Skovlin [aut], Stephen Roecker [aut], Andrew Brown [aut, cre]

Initial release

2021-04-7