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title: 'weatherOz: An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources'
version: 2.0.2
doi: 10.21105/joss.06717
identifiers:
- type: doi
value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.weatherOz
- type: url
value: https://docs.ropensci.org/weatherOz/
abstract: Provides automated downloading, parsing and formatting of weather data for
Australia through API endpoints provided by the Department of Primary Industries
and Regional Development ('DPIRD') of Western Australia and by the Science and Technology
Division of the Queensland Government's Department of Environment and Science ('DES').
As well as the Bureau of Meteorology ('BOM') of the Australian government precis
and coastal forecasts, and downloading and importing radar and satellite imagery
files. 'DPIRD' weather data are accessed through public 'APIs' provided by 'DPIRD',
, providing access to weather station
data from the 'DPIRD' weather station network. Australia-wide weather data are based
on data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology ('BOM') data and accessed through
'SILO' (Scientific Information for Land Owners) Jeffrey et al. (2001) .
'DPIRD' data are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence
(CC BY 3.0 AU) license .
SILO data are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence
(CC BY 4.0) . 'BOM' data are (c) Australian
Government Bureau of Meteorology and released under a Creative Commons (CC) Attribution
3.0 licence or Public Access Licence ('PAL') as appropriate, see
for further details.
authors:
- family-names: Pires
given-names: Rodrigo
email: rodrigo.pires@dpird.wa.gov.au
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-6849
- family-names: Hepworth
given-names: Anna
email: anna.hepworth@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0204-6347
- family-names: O'Leary
given-names: Rebecca
email: bec.oleary@curtin.edu.au
- family-names: Carroll
given-names: Jonathan
email: rpkg@jcarroll.com.au
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1404-5264
- family-names: Goldie
given-names: James
email: me@jamesgoldie.dev
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5024-6207
- family-names: Marchiori
given-names: Dean
email: deanmarchiori@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-7225
- family-names: Melloy
given-names: Paul
email: paul@melloy.com.au
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4253-7167
- family-names: Padgham
given-names: Mark
email: mark.padgham@email.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2172-5265
- family-names: Parsonage
given-names: Hugh
email: hugh.parsonage@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4055-0835
- family-names: Sparks
given-names: Adam H.
email: adamhsparks@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359
preferred-citation:
type: article
title: 'weatherOz: An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources
in R'
authors:
- family-names: Pires
given-names: Rodrigo
email: rodrigo.pires@dpird.wa.gov.au
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-6849
- family-names: Hepworth
given-names: Anna
email: anna.hepworth@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0204-6347
- family-names: O'Leary
given-names: Rebecca
email: bec.oleary@curtin.edu.au
- family-names: Carroll
given-names: Jonathan
email: rpkg@jcarroll.com.au
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1404-5264
- family-names: Goldie
given-names: James
email: me@jamesgoldie.dev
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5024-6207
- family-names: Marchiori
given-names: Dean
email: deanmarchiori@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-7225
- family-names: Melloy
given-names: Paul
email: paul@melloy.com.au
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4253-7167
- family-names: Padgham
given-names: Mark
email: mark.padgham@email.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2172-5265
- family-names: Parsonage
given-names: Hugh
email: hugh.parsonage@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4055-0835
- family-names: Sparks
given-names: Adam H.
email: adamhsparks@gmail.com
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359
journal: Journal of Open Source Software
year: '2024'
issue: '98'
volume: '9'
doi: 10.21105/joss.06717
publisher:
name: The Open Journal
url: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06717
start: '6717'
repository: https://ropensci.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ropensci/weatherOz
commit: 024642fc124c3d0b17596f45e3d4cbd8af573a23
url: https://github.com/ropensci/weatherOz/
date-released: '2025-08-29'
contact:
- family-names: Pires
given-names: Rodrigo
email: rodrigo.pires@dpird.wa.gov.au
orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-6849
keywords:
- dpird
- bom
- meteorological-data
- weather-forecast
- australia
- weather
- weather-data
- meteorology
- western-australia
- australia-bureau-of-meteorology
- western-australia-agriculture
- australia-agriculture
- australia-climate
- australia-weather
references:
- type: manual
title: 'weatherOz: An API Client for Australian Weather and Climate Data Resources
in R'
authors:
- family-names: Pires
given-names: Rodrigo
- family-names: Hepworth
given-names: Anna
- family-names: O'Leary
given-names: Rebecca
- family-names: Carroll
given-names: Jonathan
- family-names: Goldie
given-names: James
- family-names: Marchiori
given-names: Dean
- family-names: Melloy
given-names: Paul
- family-names: Padgham
given-names: Mark
- family-names: Parsonage
given-names: Hugh
- family-names: Sparks
given-names: Adam H.
year: '2025'
notes: R package version 2.0.2
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8191283
url: https://docs.ropensci.org/weatherOz/