mev (version 1.17)

frwind: French wind data

Description

Daily mean wind speed (in km/h) at four stations in the south of France, namely Cap Cepet (S1), Lyon St-Exupery (S2), Marseille Marignane (S3) and Montelimar (S4). The data includes observations from January 1976 until April 2023; days containing missing values are omitted.

Format

A data frame with 17209 observations and 8 variables:

date

date of measurement

S1

wind speed (in km/h) at Cap Cepet

S2

wind speed (in km/h) at Lyon Saint-Exupery

S3

wind speed (in km/h) at Marseille Marignane

S4

wind speed (in km/h) at Montelimar

H2

humidity (in percentage) at Lyon Saint-Exupery

T2

mean temperature (in degree Celcius) at Lyon Saint-Exupery

The metadata attribute includes latitude and longitude (in degrees, minutes, seconds), altitude (in m), station name and station id.

References

Klein Tank, A.M.G. and Coauthors, 2002. Daily dataset of 20th-century surface air temperature and precipitation series for the European Climate Assessment. Int. J. of Climatol., 22, 1441-1453.

Examples

data(frwind, package = "mev")
head(frwind)
attr(frwind, which = "metadata")