HRprec08: Daily precipitation for Croatia for year 2008

Description

The daily measurements of precipitation (rain gauges) for year 2008 kindly contributed by the Croatian National Meteorological Service. HRprec08 contains 175,059 measurements of precipitation sums (489 stations by 365 days).

Usage

data(HRprec08)

Arguments

Format

The HRprec08 data frames contain the following columns:

NAME: name of the meteorological station
Lon: a numeric vector; x-coordiante / longitude in the WGS84 system
Lat: a numeric vector; y-coordinate / latitude in the WGS84 system
DATE: 'Date' class vector
PREC: daily cummulative precipitation in mm (precipitation from the day before)

References

Testik, F.Y. and Gebremichael, M. Eds (2011) Rainfall: State of the Science. Geophysical monograph series, Vol. 191, 287 p. 10.1029/GM191
Zaninovic K., Gajic-Capka, M., Percec Tadic, M. et al., (2010) Klimatski atlas Hrvatske / Climate atlas of Croatia 1961-1990., 1971-2000. Zagreb, Croatian National Meteorological Service, 200 p.
AGGM book datasets (http://spatial-analyst.net/book/HRclim2008)

Examples

Run this code

# NOT RUN {
data(HRprec08)
library(sp)
# }
# NOT RUN {
# subset:
prec.2008.05.01 <- HRprec08[HRprec08$DATE=="2008-05-01",]
coordinates(prec.2008.05.01) <- ~Lon+Lat
proj4string(prec.2008.05.01) <- CRS("+proj=lonlat +datum=WGS84")
# write to KML:
shape = "http://plotkml.r-forge.r-project.org/circle.png"
data(SAGA_pal)
kml(prec.2008.05.01, size = PREC, shape = shape, colour = PREC, 
    colour_scale = SAGA_pal[[9]], labels = PREC)
# }