How to crack open NetCDF files in R and extract data as time series

Access to free climate data can be tricky — here’s how

A lot of things today are or can be analyzed with climate and weather data in mind: agriculture production, tourism, sales, emergency management, construction, migration, allergies, or your yearly ice cream munchies. But where does one get these data?

Lucky for us, many of those shiny orbiting specks of light we see in a cloudless night — satellites — are doing a lot of the hard …

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