nordklimdata1 (version 1.2)

NordklimStationCatalogue: The Nordklim Station Catalogue

Description

Information about the Nordklim stations and climate element numbers.

Usage

data(NordklimStationCatalogue)

Format

A data frame with 114 observations on the following 31 variables.

Station

Station id

Catalogue

Catalogue id

Station.name

Station name

Height.ASL

Height at sea level

Country

Country

Nordklim.number

Nordklim id

Lat.Long

Lat./Long.

X101

Mean temperature

X101E

Mean temperature error

X111

Mean maximum temperature

X111E

Mean maximum temperature error

X112

Highest maximum temperature

X112E

Highest maximum temperature error

X113

Day of Th

X113E

Day of Th error

X121

Mean minimum temperature

X121E

Mean minimum temperature error

X122

Lowest minimum temperature

X122E

Lowest minimum temperature error

X123

Day of Tl

X123E

Day of Tl error

X401

Mean Pressure

X401E

Mean Pressure error

X601

Precipitation Sum

X601E

Precipitation Sum error

X602

Maximum 1-day precipitation

X602E

Maximum 1-day precipitation error

X701

Number of days with snow cover (> 50% covered)

X701E

Number of days with snow cover (> 50% covered) error

X801

Mean cloud cover

X801E

Mean cloud cover error

Source

http://www.smhi.se/hfa_coord/nordklim

Details

The station catalogue has five columns with station information (station name, height at sea level, country code, NORDKLIM number and Lat./Long.) followed by 24 columns, two for each climate element number, the first is the first year of the dataset and the second is the last year.

References

Nordklim dataset 1.0 - description and illustrations Norwegian meteorological institute, 08/01 KLIMA, 2001

Examples

## Not run: 
# data(NordklimStationCatalogue)
# str(NordklimStationCatalogue)
# # 114 stations
# length(NordklimStationCatalogue$Nordklim.number)
# # in 5 Nordic countries
# length(NordklimStationCatalogue$Country)
# # how many stations per country?
# table(NordklimStationCatalogue$Country,dnn = 
# list("Number of stations per country"))
# # how many climate elements recorded per station?
# climElSta <- rowSums(sign(NordklimStationCatalogue[,c('X101','X111','X112',
# 'X113','X121','X122','X123','X401','X601','X602','X701','X801')]), 
# na.rm = TRUE)
# barplot(climElSta,ylab='Climate elements',xlab='Stations',
# main='Climate elements recorded per station')
# # how many stations per climate element?
# staClimEl <- colSums(sign(NordklimStationCatalogue[,c('X101','X111','X112','X113','X121',
# 'X122','X123','X401','X601','X602','X701','X801')]), na.rm = TRUE)
# barplot(staClimEl,xlab='Climate element',ylab='Stations',
# main='Stations per climate element')
# # how many stations have 1,2,3, ..., 12 climate elements? 
# # (same as Fig. 2 from Nordklim dataset 1.0 - description and illustrations)
# barplot(table(climElSta),xlab='Climate element',ylab='Stations',
# main='Number of stations as a function of number of climatic elements')
# ## End(Not run)