get_ag_bulletin function

Get a BOM Agriculture Bulletin

Defunct: This function is defunct as of version 2.0.0 because the underlying BOM agricultural forecast bulletin service is no longer available.

get_ag_bulletin(state = "AUS")

Arguments

• state: Australian state or territory as full name or postal code. Fuzzy string matching via base::agrep() is done. Defaults to AUS

  returning all state bulletins, see Details for more.

Returns

A data frame as a weatherOz_tbl object (inherits and is fully compatible with data.table::data.table()) of Australia BOM

agricultural bulletin information.

Details

Fetch the BOM agricultural bulletin information for a specified station or stations.

Allowed state and territory postal codes, only one state per request or all using 'AUS'.

• AUS: Australia, returns forecast for all states, NT and ACT
• ACT: Australian Capital Territory (will return NSW)
• NSW: New South Wales
• NT: Northern Territory
• QLD: Queensland
• SA: South Australia
• TAS: Tasmania
• VIC: Victoria
• WA: Western Australia

Note

Data and Information Use Please note the copyright notice and disclaimer, http://www.bom.gov.au/other/copyright.shtml related to the use of this information. Users of this information are deemed to have read and accepted the conditions described therein.

References

Agricultural observations are retrieved from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM ) Weather Data Services Agriculture Bulletins,

http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/observations/about-agricultural.shtml.

And also,

Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM )) Weather Data Services Observation of Rainfall,

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/how/observations/rain-measure.shtml.

Station location and other metadata are sourced from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM ) webpage, Bureau of Meteorology Site Numbers:

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/cdo/about/site-num.shtml.

See Also

parse_ag_bulletin

Other BOM: find_forecast_towns(), get_available_imagery(), get_available_radar(), get_coastal_forecast(), get_precis_forecast(), get_radar_imagery(), get_satellite_imagery(), parse_ag_bulletin(), parse_coastal_forecast(), parse_precis_forecast()

Other data fetching: get_coastal_forecast(), get_data_drill(), get_data_drill_apsim(), get_dpird_apsim(), get_dpird_extremes(), get_dpird_minute(), get_dpird_summaries(), get_patched_point(), get_patched_point_apsim(), get_precis_forecast(), get_radar_imagery(), get_satellite_imagery()

Author(s)

Adam H. Sparks, [email protected] , and Paul Melloy, [email protected]