This data was provided by NASA for the competition.
data(nasa)
A data frame with 41472 rows and 17 variables
The data shows 6 years of monthly measurements of a 24x24 spatial grid from Central America:
time integer specifying temporal order of measurements
x, y, lat, long spatial location of measurements.
cloudhigh, cloudlow, cloudmid, ozone, pressure, surftemp, temperature are the various satellite measurements.
date, day, month, year specifying the time of measurements.
id unique ide for each spatial position.
Murrell, P. (2010) The 2006 Data Expo of the American Statistical Association. Computational Statistics, 25:551-554.