casnowload: California Snow Load Data

casnowloadR Documentation

California Snow Load Data

Description

A subset of data from the 7964 measurement locations included in the 2020 National Snow Load Study. This data is basically on reliability-targeted snow loads (RTSL) in the state of California.

Usage

casnowload

Format

A data frame with 346 rows and 8 columns.

STATION

Name of the snow measuring station

LATITUDE

Latitude coordinate position

LONGITUDE

Longitude coordinate position

ELEVATION

Elevation of the measring station (measured in meters)

RTSL

The hard data RTSL value

LOWER

The lower endpoint RTSL

UPPER

The upper endpoint RTSL

TYPE

Type of snow measurement, WESD is direct and SNWD is indirect measurement. Direct measurements are hard data and have the lower, upper and center values are the same. Indirect measurements have LOWER < RTSL < UPPER.

Source

https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/


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