Vargas: Rainfall in Vargas, Venezuela
Description
Daily, monthly and quarterly precipitation values for meteorological stations
located in the Vargas state, Venezuela.
There are two collections (data sets) of precipitation,
Vargas and Vargas2, both data sets
have the same source of meteorological stations located in the Vargas state, Venezuela.
Data sets follows vetools Catalog
Convention. See Catalog Convention.
Usage
data(Vargas) data(Vargas2)
Format
The first collection Vargas contains four lists of 33 elements:
- Vargas$catalog
- list of each station's meta data. Follows vetools Catalog Convention.
To see meta data
summary(Vargas). - Vargas$daily
- list containing each station's daily time-series of class
"ts" of frequency 365.25. - Vargas$data
- list containing each station's monthly time-series of class
"ts" of frequency 12. - Vargas$quarterly
- list containing each station's quarterly time-series of class
"ts" of frequency 4.
The quarters are defined in base of Venezuela's rainy season: Feb-Apr, May-Jul, Aug-Oct, Nov-Jan.
The "data" and "quarterly" member series where built upon daily using the command tssum with arguments
meses=1:12 and meses=c(2, 5, 8, 11) respectively. The second collection Vargas2 contains three elements:
- Vargas2$catalog
-
list of 32 station's meta data.
Follows vetools
Catalog Convention.
To see meta data
summary(Vargas2).
- Vargas2$data
-
list of length 32 containing each
station's time-series of class
"ts" on monthly basis. These
series where completed using the
Expectation-Maximization Algorithm.
- Vargas2$statewise
- representative time-serie
for the whole Vargas state. This series was build
upon
Vargas2$data.
Source
Ministerio de Agricultura y Recursos Naturales.
División De Hidrología, Meteorología y Oceanología
(http://www.minamb.gob.ve/).Details
This data set provides day, monthly, quarterly and representative precipitation
for 33 (32) meteorological stations located in the Vargas state of Venezuela.
The region is delimited between -66.30917, -67.35 degrees and
10.46667 and 10.63 degrees (North), stations height vary between 0 and 1537
metres above sea level. Time-series for statios vary between 1948 and 2006. The data set was imported into R using read.MARN function.