get_coastal_forecast function

Get a BOM Coastal Waters Forecast

Fetch the BOM daily Coastal Waters Forecast for a specified state or region.

get_coastal_forecast(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 forecasts, see details for further information.

Returns

A data.table::data.table() of an Australia BOM Coastal Waters Forecast.

Details

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

Examples

get_coastal_forecast(state = "NSW")

References

Forecast data come from Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Weather Data Services

http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/data-feeds.shtml.

And also,

Location data and other metadata come from the BOM anonymous FTP server with spatial data

ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/, specifically the DBF file portion of a shapefile,

ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/IDM00003.dbf.

See Also

parse_coastal_forecast

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

Other data fetching: get_ag_bulletin(), 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)

Dean Marchiori, [email protected] , and Paul Melloy, [email protected]