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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
prec
a numeric vector; daily precipitation in mm
press
a numeric vector; daily air pressure in hPa

Details

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."

Examples

Run this code
data(potsdam)
names(potsdam)
head(potsdam)
str(potsdam)

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