Retrieve Gridded Weather Data from SILO

Downloads weather records from the SILO Gridded Dataset API (https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/api-documentation/) for a specified location and date range.

silo_grid(
  lon,
  lat,
  email,
  start = as.Date("1889-01-01"),
  finish = Sys.Date(),
  format = c("apsim", "standard"),
  outfile = NULL
)

Arguments

lon

Numeric. Longitude of the location.

lat

Numeric. Latitude of the location.

email

Character. Email address required for API access.

start

Date or character. Start date of the data request (in "YYYY-MM-DD" format).

finish

Date or character. End date of the data request (in "YYYY-MM-DD" format).

format

Character. Data format to request from the API (e.g., "csv", "json").

outfile

Character. Path to the output file where data will be saved.

Value

Invisibly returns NULL. The function is called for its side effect of downloading and saving the data.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
get_silo_data(
  lon = 151.2,
  lat = -27.5,
  start = "2020-01-01",
  finish = "2020-12-31",
  email = "user@example.com",
  format = "csv",
  output_format = "apsim",
  outfile = "weather.apsim"
)
} # }