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Daily Weather Data (1996-2020) from Angochen Weather Observing Station, Mozambique

Source: R/climateData.R
climateData.Rd

Contains daily weather data obtained from Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INAM). The sample data includes daily raw weather data from January 1, 1996, to December 31, 2020, from a weather station located in Angochen, Nampula province of Mozambique.

Usage

data(climateData)

Format

A data frame containing daily values of weather variables:

  • Station_Name: Name of the weather station.

  • Lat: Latitude of the site in decimal degrees.

  • Lon: Longitude of the site in decimal degrees.

  • Elev: Elevation above sea level in meters.

  • Year: Year of the record (YYYY).

  • Month: Month of the record (MM).

  • Day: Day of the record (DD).

  • Rain: Daily rainfall in millimeters (mm).

  • Tmax: Daily maximum temperature at 2 meters height in degrees Celsius (°C).

  • Tmin: Daily minimum temperature at 2 meters height in degrees Celsius (°C).

Source

INAM - Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, Mozambique

See also

AgroClimateData, calcEto

Examples

## Load the climate data
data(climateData)

## Get the structure of the data frame
str(climateData)
#> 'data.frame':	9132 obs. of  10 variables:
#>  $ Station_Name: chr  "ANGOCHE" "ANGOCHE" "ANGOCHE" "ANGOCHE" ...
#>  $ Lat         : num  -16.2 -16.2 -16.2 -16.2 -16.2 ...
#>  $ Lon         : num  39.9 39.9 39.9 39.9 39.9 ...
#>  $ Elev        : num  25.2 25.2 25.2 25.2 25.2 ...
#>  $ Year        : num  1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 ...
#>  $ Month       : num  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ Day         : num  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...
#>  $ Rain        : num  0 0 7 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 ...
#>  $ Tmax        : num  31.5 32 30 30.9 31.4 31.5 32 30 30.9 31.4 ...
#>  $ Tmin        : num  22.5 22 22.8 24.5 24 22.5 22 22.8 24.5 24 ...

## Get the head of the data frame
head(climateData)
#>   Station_Name      Lat     Lon  Elev Year Month Day Rain Tmax Tmin
#> 1      ANGOCHE -16.2163 39.9145 25.19 1996     1   1    0 31.5 22.5
#> 2      ANGOCHE -16.2163 39.9145 25.19 1996     1   2    0 32.0 22.0
#> 3      ANGOCHE -16.2163 39.9145 25.19 1996     1   3    7 30.0 22.8
#> 4      ANGOCHE -16.2163 39.9145 25.19 1996     1   4    0 30.9 24.5
#> 5      ANGOCHE -16.2163 39.9145 25.19 1996     1   5    0 31.4 24.0
#> 6      ANGOCHE -16.2163 39.9145 25.19 1996     1   6    0 31.5 22.5