An RShiny web application for visualizing high frequency meteorological data and identifying extreme climate events in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
A challenge with using a daily average wind speed for wind roses is you end up with a direction that is not realistic. Bonney is a great example. The two dominant wind directions are NE and SW (and these switch daily). As a result, your daily wind rose is from the SE (which doesn't reflect a real wind direction). Example below:
Data were only provided for one season and the data format is not app-friendly. So, the app shows it as an option at CAAM, but there aren't any data to display.
In app.R, add code in section "# Update choices when a new met station is selected" to address a bug that occurs when a user has selected a particular parameter suite, e.g., EXEM RADN, then selects a new station that does not have this parameter suite, e.g., FRSM. When this occurs, the app crashes with the following error: Warning: Error in : '../data/FRSM/FRSM_RADN/FRSM_RADN.csv' does not exist in current working directory...
Only one season of netrad data from BRHM and CAAM, and should be excluded. Although a full record exists at FRSM, it should be excluded from the app for simplicity, which means that RADN should be excluded from FRSM, since no other solar radiation data are measured at this site.
Explore use of windRose() in openair and other libraries to improve wind rose visualizations. Current package does not allow for customization of wind speed bins, etc.