meteo (version 2.0-2)

stations: Data frame containing stations' information

Description

Data frame containing stations' information of merged daily observations from the Global Surface Summary of Day (GSOD) with European Climate Assessment & Data set (ECA&D) for the month July 2011.

Usage

data(stations)

Format

The stations contains the following columns:

staid

character; station ID from GSOD or ECA&D data set

lon

numeric; longitude coordinate

lat

numeric; longitude coordinate

elev_1m

numeric; elevation derived from station metadata in m

data_source

Factor; data source, GSOD or ECA&D

station_name

character; station name

Author

Milan Kilibarda and Tomislav Hengl

References

• Global Surface Summary of the day data (ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/)

• European Climate Assessment & Dataset (https://www.ecad.eu/dailydata/predefinedseries.php)

Examples

## load data:
data(stations)
str(stations)
library(sp)
coordinates(stations) <-~ lon +lat
stations@proj4string <-CRS('+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84')
# plot(stations)