potsdam: Example data from the Potsdam weather station
Description
The potsdam data frame contains daily data of maximum, average
and minimum air temperature, precipitation and air pressure (1979-2013)
from the weather station at Potsdam, Germany
Usage
data(potsdam)
Arguments
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
date
a character vector; calendar date (yyyy-mm-dd)
tmax
a numeric vector; daily maximum air temperature in deg. C
tavg
a numeric vector; daily average air temperature in
deg. C
tmin
a numeric vector; daily minimum air temperature in
deg. C
The original data comes from ECA&D (see link below) and was assembled
into a readable csv file. Note that this data must not be used for
commercial purposes, see
http://eca.knmi.nl/documents/ECAD_datapolicy.pdf. Quote from the
document: "These data, which include many GCOS-defined Essential Climate
Variables (ECVs) for the atmosphere near the surface, are strictly
for use in non-commercial research and education projects only."