eaflood

The eaflood package provides access to data from the Environment Agency FloodMonitoring API covering flood areas in England.

The following data are available:

• Flood warnings
• Flood areas
• Monitoring stations
• Measures (e.g. level and flow recorded at the monitoring stations)
• Readings values for each measure over the previous 4 weeks.

Installation

You can install the development version of eaflood from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("DavidASmith/eaflood")

Examples

Here a few examples of what you can do with eaflood:

library(eaflood)

Get current flood warnings:

plot_flood_warnings(interactive = FALSE)

Get flood areas for a given location…

plot_flood_areas(lat = 53.38,
                 lon = -1.46,
                 dist = 10, 
                 interactive = FALSE)

Get details of available monitoring stations…

plot_stations(town = "Gloucester", interactive = FALSE)

Get recent readings for a particular measure…

plot_measure_readings("L0607-level-stage-i-15_min-m", show_max = FALSE)

See the vignette for more information.