The AtmChile open-source interactive application for exploring air quality and meteorological data in Chile

Abstract

AtmChile is an R package that permits the download and management of data from the National Air Quality Information System (SINCA, Spanish acronyms) and the Chilean Meteorological Directorate (DMC, Spanish acronyms) for multiple air quality and climatological parameters in a simple and intuitive platform. The AtmChile package includes the ChileAirQualityApp, a dashboard for enhancing the data download functions of this package with analysis, visualization, and descriptive statistics tools in a user-friendly manner. The AtmChile offers researchers and the public a highly intuitive open access package to download, validate, visualize, and preliminarily analyze air quality and climatological data available in Chile.