weather.radiation.Mannheim {WaveletComp}

Series of weather data and ambient gamma dose rate readings

Description

Ten years (from January 2005 through December 2014; 3652 values) of daily mean temperature, relative humidity, and ambient gamma dose rate (German abbreviation: ODL) readings from Mannheim-Rheinau (Germany).

ODL data retrieved in 2015 from ODL-INFO http://odlinfo.bfs.de/download.php of the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (in German: Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz, BfS), weather data from the German Meteorological Office (in German: Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD) ftp://ftp-cdc.dwd.de/pub/CDC/observations_germany/climate/daily/kl/historical/.
— We owe this example to our former student Nadiya Appelhans.

Usage

data("weather.radiation.Mannheim")

Format

A data frame of four columns:

	date	:	day of measurement (in UTC, Coordinated Universal Time),
			format: "%Y-%m-%d"
	temperature	:	mean daily temperature, in degrees Celsius
	humidity	:	mean daily relative humidity, in percent
	radiation	:	mean daily ambient gamma dose rate (ODL), in microsieverts per hour

Details

The ambient gamma dose rate is an equivalent dose representing the stochastic health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body. According to BfS, radioactivity is to be found everywhere in the environment. It may be of natural or artificial origin. — We drew Mannheim randomly from a set of places for which weather and radiation data were available; there is no conspicuous radiation in Mannheim.

Source

The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) Germany, http://www.bfs.de/EN/home/home_node.html, and in particular http://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/environment_node.html

ODL-INFO http://odlinfo.bfs.de/DE/service/downloadbereich.html

DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst) https://www.dwd.de/EN/Home/home_node.html

Examples

data(weather.radiation.Mannheim)

plot(as.Date(weather.radiation.Mannheim$date, tz = "UTC"),
     weather.radiation.Mannheim$radiation, type = "l",
     xlab = "day", 
     ylab = "mean daily ambient gamma dose rate (ODL) in microsieverts per hour")