frwind {mev}

French wind data

Description

Daily mean wind speed (in km/h) at four stations in the south of France, namely Cap Cépet (S1), Lyon St-Exupéry (S2), Marseille Marignane (S3) and Montélimar (S4). The data includes observations from January 1976 until April 2023; days containing missing values are omitted.

Format

A data frame with 17209 observations and 8 variables:

date

date of measurement

S1

wind speed (in km/h) at Cap Cépet

S2

wind speed (in km/h) at Lyon Saint-Exupéry

S3

wind speed (in km/h) at Marseille Marignane

S4

wind speed (in km/h) at Montélimar

H2

humidity (in percentage) at Lyon Saint-Exupéry

T2

mean temperature (in degree Celcius) at Lyon Saint-Exupéry

The metadata attribute includes latitude and longitude (in degrees, minutes, seconds), altitude (in m), station name and station id.

Source

European Climate Assessment and Dataset project https://www.ecad.eu/

References

Klein Tank, A.M.G. and Coauthors, 2002. Daily dataset of 20th-century surface air temperature and precipitation series for the European Climate Assessment. Int. J. of Climatol., 22, 1441-1453.

Examples

data(frwind, package = "mev")
head(frwind)
attr(frwind, which = "metadata")