The National Climate Database contains data collected from around
6,500 weather stations throughout New Zealand, providing a necessary
repository for any study involving New Zealand’s weather or climate.
Although data from this database can be accessed via a web portal (CliFlo),
the vast amount of information is not readily consumable. The clifro
R package provides the necessary functions to easily integrate the
National Climate Database with R, and provides a variety of elegant plotting
methods for data exploration. Also, by supplying functions to access the
database via CliFlo programmatically, clifro allows for transparent and
reproducible research when using these data.
Blake M. Seers and Nick T. Shears
