rdwd: climate data from the German Weather Service

Berry Boessenkool, berry-b@gmx.de

rdwd is an R interface to data from the German weather service (DWD)

It provides three categories of services:

• find, select, download + read data
• vectorized, progress bars, no re-downloads
• index of files + meta data

for three types of data:

• observational time series from 6k meteorological recording stations (2.5k active) -> rain, temperature, wind, sunshine, pressure, cloudiness, humidity, snow, …
• gridded raster data from radar + interpolation
• european data stock slowly growing (but reading functions not tested yet)

All further information is available on the website: https://bookdown.org/brry/rdwd