# 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