RNCEP: global weather and climate data at your fingertips

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<jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p><jats:bold>1.</jats:bold> Atmospheric conditions strongly influence ecological systems, and tools that simplify the access and processing of atmospheric data can greatly facilitate ecological research.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>2.</jats:bold> We have developed RNCEP, a package of functions in the open‐source R language, to access, organise and visualise freely available atmospheric data from two long‐term high‐quality data sets with global coverage.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>3.</jats:bold> These functions retrieve data, via the Internet, for either a desired spatiotemporal extent or interpolated to a point in space and time. The package also contains functions to temporally aggregate data, producing user‐defined variables, and to visualise these data on a map.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>4.</jats:bold> By making access to atmospheric data and integration with biological data easier and more flexible, we hope to facilitate and encourage the exploration of relationships between biological systems and atmospheric conditions.</jats:p>

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