aemet {fda.usc}

aemet data

Description

Series of daily summaries of 73 spanish weather stations selected for the period 1980-2009. The dataset contains geographic information of each station and the average for the period 1980-2009 of daily temperature, daily precipitation and daily wind speed.

Format

Elements of aemet:
..$df: Data frame with information of each wheather station:

• ind: Indicated weather station.

• name: Station Name. 36 marked UTF-8 strings.

• province:Province (region) of Spain. 36 marked UTF-8 strings

• altitude: Altitude of the station (in meters).

• year.ini: Start year.

• year.end: End year.

• longitude: x geographic coordinate of the station (in decimal degrees).

• latitude: y geographic coordinate of the station (in decimal degrees).

The functional variables:

• ...$temp: mean curve of the average daily temperature for the period 1980-2009 (in degrees Celsius, marked with UTF-8 string). In leap years temperatures for February 28 and 29 were averaged.

• ...$wind.speed: mean curve of the average daily wind speed for the period 1980-2009 (in m/s).

• ...$logprec: mean curve of the log precipitation for the period 1980-2009 (in log mm). Negligible precipitation (less than 1 tenth of mm) is replaced by 0.05 and no precipitation (0.0 mm) is replaced by 0.01. Then the logarithm is applied.

Details

Meteorological State Agency of Spain (AEMET), https://www.aemet.es/es/portada. Government of Spain.
It marks 36 UTF-8 string of names of stations and 3 UTF-8 string names of provinces through the function iconv.

Author(s)

Manuel Febrero Bande, Manuel Oviedo de la Fuente [e-mail]

Source

The data were obtained from the FTP of AEMET in 2009.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(aemet)
names(aemet)
names(aemet$df)
class(aemet)<-c("ldata","list") # ldata object
lat <- ifelse(aemet$df$latitude<31,"red","blue")
plot(aemet,col=lat)

## End(Not run)