BrazilMet: Download and Processing of Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) Data of INMET-Brazil

A collection of functions for downloading and processing automatic weather station (AWS) data from INMET (Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology), designed to support the estimation of reference evapotranspiration (ETo). The package facilitates streamlined access to meteorological data and aims to simplify analyses in agricultural and environmental contexts.

Version: 0.5.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: stringr, readxl, dplyr (≥ 0.3.0.1), tibble, lubridate, sf, stringi, terra
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, ggplot2, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-10-02
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.BrazilMet
Author: Roberto Filgueiras ORCID iD [aut, cre], Luan P. Venancio ORCID iD [aut], Catariny C. Aleman ORCID iD [aut], Fernando F. da Cunha ORCID iD [aut], Arthur T. Calegario ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Roberto Filgueiras <betofilgueiras at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/FilgueirasR/BrazilMet/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/FilgueirasR/BrazilMet, https://filgueirasr.github.io/BrazilMet/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: BrazilMet results

Documentation:

Reference manual: BrazilMet.html , BrazilMet.pdf
Vignettes: 🌱💧 Design ETo calculation (source, R code)
💧 ETo Calculation Based on FAO-56 Penman-Monteith (source, R code)
🌧️ Sequential Water Balance (Thornthwaite-Mather) (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: BrazilMet_0.5.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: BrazilMet_0.4.0.zip, r-release: BrazilMet_0.4.0.zip, r-oldrel: BrazilMet_0.4.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): BrazilMet_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): BrazilMet_0.4.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): BrazilMet_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): BrazilMet_0.5.0.tgz
Old sources: BrazilMet archive

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