Find stations near a location

Searches for weather stations within a given radius of a point, sorted by distance. Uses the GHCN-Daily station inventory.

Usage

noaa_nearby(lat, lon, radius_km = 50, limit = 25L)

Arguments

lat

Numeric. Latitude of the target location.

lon

Numeric. Longitude of the target location.

radius_km

Numeric. Search radius in kilometres (default 50).

limit

Integer. Maximum number of results (default 25).

Value

A data frame with the same columns as noaa_stations() plus:

distance_km

Numeric. Distance from the target point in kilometres.

See also

Other station discovery: noaa_stations()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(readnoaa.cache_dir = tempdir())
# Stations within 25 km of central London
noaa_nearby(51.5, -0.1, radius_km = 25)
#> ℹ Searching for nearby stations
#> ✔ Searching for nearby stations [1.7s]
#> 
#>       station latitude longitude elevation      name distance_km
#> 1 UKE00105915  51.5608    0.1789       137 HAMPSTEAD    20.44295
options(op)
# }