NordklimStationCatalogue {nordklimdata1} | R Documentation |
Information about the Nordklim stations and climate element numbers.
data(NordklimStationCatalogue)
A data frame with 114 observations on the following 31 variables.
Station id
Catalogue id
Station name
Height at sea level
Country
Nordklim id
Lat./Long.
Mean temperature
Mean temperature error
Mean maximum temperature
Mean maximum temperature error
Highest maximum temperature
Highest maximum temperature error
Day of Th
Day of Th error
Mean minimum temperature
Mean minimum temperature error
Lowest minimum temperature
Lowest minimum temperature error
Day of Tl
Day of Tl error
Mean Pressure
Mean Pressure error
Precipitation Sum
Precipitation Sum error
Maximum 1-day precipitation
Maximum 1-day precipitation error
Number of days with snow cover (> 50% covered)
Number of days with snow cover (> 50% covered) error
Mean cloud cover
Mean cloud cover error
The station catalogue has five columns with station information (station name, height at sea level, country code, NORDKLIM number and Lat./Long.) followed by 24 columns, two for each climate element number, the first is the first year of the dataset and the second is the last year.
http://www.smhi.se/hfa_coord/nordklim
Nordklim dataset 1.0 - description and illustrations Norwegian meteorological institute, 08/01 KLIMA, 2001
## Not run:
data(NordklimStationCatalogue)
str(NordklimStationCatalogue)
# 114 stations
length(NordklimStationCatalogue$Nordklim.number)
# in 5 Nordic countries
length(NordklimStationCatalogue$Country)
# how many stations per country?
table(NordklimStationCatalogue$Country,dnn =
list("Number of stations per country"))
# how many climate elements recorded per station?
climElSta <- rowSums(sign(NordklimStationCatalogue[,c('X101','X111','X112',
'X113','X121','X122','X123','X401','X601','X602','X701','X801')]),
na.rm = TRUE)
barplot(climElSta,ylab='Climate elements',xlab='Stations',
main='Climate elements recorded per station')
# how many stations per climate element?
staClimEl <- colSums(sign(NordklimStationCatalogue[,c('X101','X111','X112','X113','X121',
'X122','X123','X401','X601','X602','X701','X801')]), na.rm = TRUE)
barplot(staClimEl,xlab='Climate element',ylab='Stations',
main='Stations per climate element')
# how many stations have 1,2,3, ..., 12 climate elements?
# (same as Fig. 2 from Nordklim dataset 1.0 - description and illustrations)
barplot(table(climElSta),xlab='Climate element',ylab='Stations',
main='Number of stations as a function of number of climatic elements')
## End(Not run)