Obtain metadata for every station.

Source: R/cefa_createMeta.R

Assembles individual station metadata from a CEFA webservice into a standardized dataframe. Metdata columns include:

  • deviceDeploymentID -- unique identifier

  • deviceID -- device identifier

  • locationID -- location identifier

  • locationName -- English language name

  • longitude -- decimal degrees E

  • latitude -- decimal degrees N

  • elevation -- elevation of station in m

  • countryCode -- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

  • stateCode -- ISO 3166-2 alpha-2

  • timezone -- Olson time zone

  • nwsID -- NWS station identifier (for FW13 data)

  • wrccID -- WRCC station identifier (for WRCC data)

  • nessID -- NESS station identifier (in WRCC data)

  • agencyName -- responsible agency (in WRCC data)

cefa_createMeta(
  metadataUrl = "https://cefa.dri.edu/raws/RAWSfw13list.xlsx",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

metadataUrl

URL for station metadata.

verbose

Logical flag controlling detailed progress statements.

Value

Dataframe of station metadata.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Fail gracefully if any resources are not available
try({

library(RAWSmet)

library(MazamaSpatialUtils)
setSpatialDataDir("~/Data/Spatial")

meta <- cefa_createMeta(verbose = TRUE)
dplyr::glimpse(meta, width = 75)

}, silent = FALSE)
}