wateRinfo R package

wateRinfo facilitates access to waterinfo.be, a website managed by the Flanders Environment Agency (VMM) and Flanders Hydraulics Research. The website provides access to real-time water and weather related environmental variables for Flanders (Belgium), such as rainfall, air pressure, discharge, and water level. The package provides functions to search for stations and variables, and download time series.

Identification

Date ( Publication ): 2018-10-01

Date ( Revision ): 2021-05-17

Status: On going / operational

Version: 0.3.0

Keywords: marine

Keywords: freshwater

Keywords: tide

Keywords: flood

Keywords: rainfall

Keywords: drought

Access constraints: License

Use limitation: https://github.com/ropensci/wateRinfo/blob/master/LICENSE

Custodian

rOpenSci - Stijn Van Hoey

OnLine resource: wateRinfo on GitHub ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

OnLine resource: Package website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Operation name: Waterinfo

Web site: https://www.waterinfo.be/

Description: Waterinfo (previously called Hydra) is an information system with real time online data on water levels, drainage and precipitation at monitoring stations along navigable water ways in Flanders, Belgium. Real time online data on water levels, drainage and precipitation at monitoring stations along the navigable water ways in Flanders. Since 2006, a low water message is also available.

Function: Provides access to hydraulic data captured by the Flanders Hydraulics Research

Topic Category: Hydrography

Service Category: data analysis

Service Language: eng

Service TRL: TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment

Service Funding: wateRinfo is developed and maintained by the rOpenSci project. rOpenSci is a Sponsored Project of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity in the United States. NumFOCUS provides rOpenSci with fiscal, legal, and administrative support to help ensure the health and sustainability of the project. Visit numfocus.org for more information.