weather: Pressure and temperature forecast errors over the Pacific...
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Meteorological dataset, which consists of differences between forecasts and observations (forecasts minus observations) of temperature and pressure at 157 locations in the North American Pacific Northwest.

1	data(weather)

The data frame weather contains the following columns:

pressure: in units of Pascal
temperature: in units of degree Celcius
lon: longitudinal coordinates of the locations
lat: latitude coordinates of the locations

Furthermore, some results obtained from the data analysis in jss14 are delivered that are pars.model, pars, whole.model, whole.

Finally, the variable information contains packing information (the date and the version of RandomFields).

The forecasts are from the GFS member of the University of Washington regional numerical weather prediction ensemble (UWME; Grimit and Mass 2002; Eckel and Mass 2005); they were valid on December 18, 2003 at 4 pm local time, at a forecast horizon of 48 hours.

The data were obtained from Cliff Mass and Jeff Baars from the University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences.

Eckel, A. F. and Mass, C. F. (2005) Aspects of effective mesoscale, short-range ensemble forecasting Wea. Forecasting 20, 328-350.
Gneiting, T., Kleiber, W. and Schlather, M. (2010) Matern cross-covariance functions for multivariate random fields J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 105, 1167-1177.
Grimit, E. P. and Mass, C. F. (2002) Initial results of a mesoscale short-range forecasting system over the Pacific Northwest Wea. Forecasting 17, 192-205.