windcan

This program downloads hourly climate data from Environment Canada and then plucks the wind data.

THIS PROGRAM USES THE URLWRITE COMMAND (LIBCURL) TO DOWNLOAD HOURLY CLIMATE DATA FROM THE ENVIRONMENT CANADA WEBSITE. CURL SUPPORTS HTTP, FTP AND FILE PROTOCOLS.

WIND DATA IS THEN PLUCKED FROM THE DOWNLOADED FILES AND SAVED IN A CSV FILE WHICH CAN LATER BE ANALYSED IN WRPLOT OR A SIMILAR PROGRAM, SEE http://www.weblakes.com/products/wrplot/index.html

OUTPUT FILE COLUMN ORDER IS YEAR, MONTH, DAY, HOUR, DIRECTION, SPEED

GO TO http://climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climateData/canada_e.html TO FIND THE STATION ID OF THE LOCATION OF INTEREST

THE USER IS BOUND BY THE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR USE OF ENVIRONMENT CANADA DATA, SEE http://climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/prods_servs/tables/attachment1_e.html

THIS CODE CAN BE EASILY MODIFIED TO PLUCK HOURLY TEMPERATURE DATA INSTEAD OF OR IN ADDITION TO WIND DATA.