NEWS

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climate 1.3.0 (2026-03-04)

• adapting code to most recent changes in the IMGW-PIB repository:
  • fixes for meteo_imgw_monthly()
  • changes in metadata and downloading functions for hydrological datasets
  • updated Polish vignette for hydro dataset
  • added find_all_station_names() function to find all station names in the IMGW-PIB repository that match the provided name(s) and return all available datasets for those stations (e.g.entry "WARSZAWA" will also search for: "WARSZAWA-BIELANY", "WARSZAWA-OKECIE", "WARSZAWA-OBSERWATORIUM", etc.)

climate 1.2.9 (2026-02-03)

• fixes for corrupted header files in meteo_imgw_ family of functions due to changes in the IMGW-PIB repository

climate 1.2.8

• speeding up selective download for given station names in meteo_imgw_* and hydro_imgw_daily() functions that simultaneously reduce use of memory
• minor fix for meteo_imgw_daily to handle cases with station names containing extra spaces or non-parsable characters
• verbosing currently processed url for easier detection of problematic or corrupted datasets
• change of NOAA NCDC's url from www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/ to: www.ncei.noaa.gov

climate 1.2.5 (2025-10-29)

• Added 20 sec. pause between subsequent requests to the OGIMET server to avoid server overload.
  • This is a temporary solution and it is planned to implement SYNOP parsing engine. SYNOP messages can be downloaded in a bigger chunks for approx. dozens of records in a single query.
• meteo_imgw_daily fix for current year data retrieval from IMGW-PIB repository
• imgw_read - fix for wrongly formatted input CSVs for hydrological data in the IMGW-PIB repository

climate 1.2.4 (2025-10-01)

• R version >= 4.1 is now required
• Major bug fixes for ogimet-related retrievals due to changes in the OGIMET service
• Minor fixes for reading stations' coordinates from ogimet_stations(). Increased accuracy and changed logic for detecting hemisphere
• Adding hydro_imgw_datastore() to retrieve data for hydrological stations from IMGW-PIB repository datastore (telemetry system)
  • Adding stations_hydro_imgw_telemetry() to retrieve coordinates metadata for hydrological telemetry stations from IMGW-PIB

climate 1.2.3 (2025-04-23)

• Fixes and modifications for meteo_imgw_daily() and meteo_imgw_hourly() due to changes in the IMGW-PIB meteorological datasets since 2024
  • adjusting code to recognize whether downloaded zip file is not corrupted and use the "archive" package to resolve some of found edge cases
  • skipping corrupted files without breaking the download
  • removed possibility to download stations from IMGW-PIB repository using stations' ID for daily intervals
• Returning all available IMGW-PIB meteorological dataset if provided station name(s) was not found
• Logging errors in package environment and providing summary at the end of downloading instead of instant messaging
• Minor changes in unit-tests to adjust for most recent code changes

climate 1.2.2 (2024-12-20)

• Fixes and modifications for hydro_imgw() set of functions due to changes in the IMGW-PIB hydrological datasets
  • adjusting code to recognize different encoding and directory structure
  • adjusting changes in metadata
  • removed option to download data for "semiannual and annual" time resolutions due to inconsistencies in the data
• Fix unit tests for ogimet- and IMGW-related datasets
• Resolving date formatting for hydrological data - the Date column represents calendar date
• Corrected logic in downloading hourly OGIMET dataset

climate 1.2.1 (2024-10-19)

• Major fixes for adjusting code to stay in line with CRAN policies
• Corrected duplicated column names for IMGW-PIB stations
• Adjusted encoding changes and documentation updates in meteo_imgw_telemetry_stations()

climate 1.2.0

• Corrected encoding problems for some of platforms where IMGW-PIB metadata were not parsed correctly
• Added location of IMGW-PIB telemetry stations within meteo_imgw_telemetry_stations()
• Minor bug fixes

climate 1.1.1

• Fix problems with downloading precip dataset from IMGW-PIB repository after recent changes in metadata
• Bug fix for ogimet_daily if data contains more than one year

climate 1.1.0

• A new approach for handling CRAN policy for resolving problems if network issues are detected or some of the external services are temporarily down.
• Adding allow_failure argument used by default that turns off automatic debugging but avoid warnings and errors for most typical use cases
• re-factoring of unit tests
• documentation build with CI/CD
• updating vignettes and examples, including the way to use climate with Python

climate 1.0.5 (2022-08-09)

• meteo_imgw family of functions supports multiple names as argument - bug fix
• unit tests and code coverage computed with CI/CD
• units added to column labels for nearest_stations_ set of functions instead of column names for easier processing (e.g. [km] are visible now only as attributes)
• new functions follow lintr settings

climate 1.0.4 (2022-02-22)

• Function spheroid_dist added to improve accuracy of calculations between points, but also avoid installing GIS dependencies (thanks to @kadyb)
• Function nearest_stations_imgw() now uses the Vincenty's formula in spheroid_dist to calculate the distance between points on a spheroid, not the Euclidean distance (previously results were inaccurate for some specific cases)
• minor bugs fixes and improvements

climate 1.0.3 (2021-09-20)

• Adding possibility to download BUFR vertical sounding dataset from http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html; extra information with supporting example added to the sounding_wyoming's documentation
• hydro_imgw supports now exception for current year which has no flow data until it is verified by the IMGW-PIB
• ogimet_daily automatically detects column names to be used for extraction in final data.frame; extra debugging info when temperature or precipitation columns are missing
• minor changes in documentation (e.g. updated links to NOAA website)

climate 1.0.1 (2021-05-02)

• Adding data.table package to read CP1250 on machines that do not support this encoding (translit used instead)

climate 0.9.9 (2021-01-08)

• Changing URL danepubliczne.imgw.pl to dane.imgw.pl where needed
• Fixing minor ogimet and IMGW bugs
• Do not stop downloading data from ogimet.com, instead check for all available data in given period of time

climate 0.9.8 (2020-08-03)

• Adding informative message if problems with NOAA hourly dataset occur
• Informative message if problems with downloading detected for non-IMGW dataset

climate 0.9.7 (2020-07-22)

• stop working if no internet connection detected

climate 0.9.6 (2020-06-03)

• Adding nearest_stations_noaa for NOAA hourly dataset

climate 0.9.5 (2020-05-05)

• Following CRAN policies
  • Adding information if connection issues detected or URL no accessible
  • RCurl dependency removal
  • CO2 & Wyoming examplary data can be loaded offline

climate 0.9.4 (2020-04-20)

• New dataset:
  • Hourly NOAA ISH (Integrated Surface Hourly) data - global meteorological dataset dated back up to 1900

climate 0.9.3 (2020-03-30)

• Bug fixes
  • #27
• New datasets:
  • CO2 concentration from Mauna Loa observatory

climate 0.9.2 (2020-03-21)

• Bug fixes
  • #26

climate 0.9.1 (2020-01-30)

• climate is independent of imgw package
• Bug fixes
  • #24
• restored possibility of downloading single station from Polish (IMGW) repository

climate 0.3

• improves API

climate 0.2

• splits imgw into two packages: imgw and climate

climate 0.1.1

• New datasets
  • Synop data from ogimet (http://ogimet.com/index.phtml.en)
• New functions
• adding function for reading station's coordinates from "Ogimet" webportal
  • ogimet() - downloading Synop hourly or monthly data from the "Ogimet" webportal
    • ogimet_hourly() - downloading Synop hourly data from the "Ogimet" webportal
    • ogimet_daily() - downloading Synop daily aggregates from the "Ogimet" webportal
  • ogimet_stations() - retrieving geographical coordinates, altitude, WMO IDs and station names for the user-specified country nam; optionally plot results on a map
• Improvements
• Bug fixes
  • Fixes a bug in the hydro_daily() that prevented from merging more than 1 dataset

climate 0.1.0

• Deploying the package on CRAN!
• New functions
  • New function meteo() for downloading monthly, daily, and hourly meteorological data
  • New function meteo_monthly() for downloading monthly meteorological data
  • New function meteo_daily() for downloading daily meteorological data
  • New function meteo_hourly() for downloading hourly meteorological data
  • New function hydro() for downloading semiannual and annual, monthly, and daily hydrological data
  • New function hydro_annual() for downloading semiannual and annual hydrological data
  • New function hydro_monthly() for downloading monthly hydrological data
  • New function hydro_daily() for downloading daily hydrological data
  • New function meteo_metadata() for downloading the metadata of the meteorological data
  • New function hydro_metadata() for downloading the metadata of the hydrological data
  • New function meteo_sounding() for downloading the mea (i.e. measurements of the vertical profile of atmosphere) sounding data
• New datasets
  • New dataset meteo_stations containing Polish meteorological station's localizations
  • New dataset hydro_stations containing Polish hydrological station's localizations
• Improvements
  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.