The R data object was obtained from Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INAM). This example data set contains the daily raw climate data over the period between 1/1/1996 and 12/31/2020 from a weather station located in Angochen, Nampula province of Mozambique.
Usage
data(climateData)Format
A data frame containing daily observations of climate parameters:
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 record "YYYY".
Month: month of record "MM".
Day: day of record "DD".
Rain: daily rainfall in (mm).
Tmax: daily maximum temperature at 2-m
height in (°C).
Tmin: daily minimum temperature at 2-m
height in (°C).
Examples
# load example 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