Get snow survey data (California only) from the CDEC website.

CDECsnowQuery(course, start_yr, end_yr)

Arguments

course: integer, course number (e.g. 129)
start_yr: integer, the starting year (e.g. 2010)
end_yr: integer, the ending year (e.g. 2013)

Value

a data.frame object, see examples

Details

This function downloads data from the CDEC website, therefore an internet connection is required. The SWE column contains adjusted SWE if available (Adjusted column), otherwise the reported SWE is used (Water column). See the tutorial for examples.

Note

Snow course locations, ID numbers, and other information can be found here: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/misc/SnowCourses.html

References

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snowQuery

Author

D.E. Beaudette