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.
Meteorological State Agency of Spain (AEMET), http://www.aemet.es/.
Government of Spain.

Usage

data(aemet)

Format

Elements of aemet:
..$df: Dataframe 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:
...$temp: mean curve of the average daily temperature for the period 1980-2009 (in degrees Celsius, marked with UTF-8 string).
...$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).

Details

It marks 36 UTF-8 string of names of stations and 3 UTF-8 string names of provinces through the function iconv.

In leap years temperatures for February 28 and 29 were averaged.
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.

Author(s)

Manuel Febrero Bande, Manuel Oviedo de la Fuente manuel.oviedo@usc.es

Source

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

Examples

data(aemet)
names(aemet)
names(aemet$df)
par(mfrow=c(3,1))
plot(aemet$temp)
plot(aemet$wind.speed)
plot(aemet$logprec)

Results