Abstract

Summary1. Atmospheric conditions strongly influence ecological systems, and tools that simplify the access and processing of atmospheric data can greatly facilitate ecological research.2. We have developed RNCEP, a package of functions in the open‐source R language, to access, organise and visualise freely available atmospheric data from two long‐term high‐quality data sets with global coverage.3. These functions retrieve data, via the Internet, for either a desired spatiotemporal extent or interpolated to a point in space and time. The package also contains functions to temporally aggregate data, producing user‐defined variables, and to visualise these data on a map.4. By making access to atmospheric data and integration with biological data easier and more flexible, we hope to facilitate and encourage the exploration of relationships between biological systems and atmospheric conditions.

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