A dataset containing identifying information as well as coordinates and elevation for each unique North American land-based weather station in the National Climatic Data Center. Note that sites with a missing elevation in the raw data (recorded as -999.9) have been removed. Some sites have a potentially erroneous recorded elevation of zero meters.
ncdc_locations
A data frame with 65804 rows and 6 variables:
ID number to connect the data back to other NCDC data
country that the site is in. USA, Canada or Mexico
two character state/province abbreviation that the site is in
latitude coordinate
longitude coordinate
site elevation in meters