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CuencaCaroni: Rainfall data for the Cuenca del Caroní, Venezuela

Description

Monthly precipitation values for meteorological stations located in the Cuenca del Caroní, Bolívar state, Venezuela. Data set of precipitation for 91 meteorological stations located in the Bolívar state, Venezuela. Data set follows vetools Catalog Convention. See Catalog Convention.

Usage

data(CuencaCaroni)

Arguments

Format

This data set contains a collection of two members of class list, each of 91 elements:
CuencaCaroni$catalog
list of each station's meta data. Follows vetools Catalog Convention. To see meta data summary(CuencaCaroni).
CuencaCaroni$data
list containing each station's time-series of class "ts".

Source

Ministerio de Industrías básicas y Minería. CVG, EDELCA (Electrificación del Caroní) C. A. Gerencia de Gestion Ambiental. (http://www.cvg.gob.ve/espanol/cvgedelca.html).

Details

This data set provides monthly precipitation for 91 meteorological stations located in the Cuenca del Caroní region of the Bolívar state of Venezuela. The region is delimited between -63.88083, -60.60722 degrees and 3.895833 and 8.333333 degrees (North). Time-series for statios vary between 1949 and 2011.

The data set was imported into R using read.MINAMB function.

See Also

Vargas, Catalog Convention, read.MINAMB.