sic1997: The SIC 1997 Data Set
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Daily rainfall dataset from Switzerland used in the Spatial Interpolation Comparison 1997.

1	data(sic1997)

The sic1997 data set contains two objects — stations (points) and covariates (1 km grids). The daily.rainfall contains the following columns:

rainfall: numeric; daily rainfall measurements at 467 meteo stations on the 8th of May 1986
X: numeric; easting in the local coordinate system
Y: numeric; northing in the local coordinate system

Object swiss1km contains the following columns:

CHELSA_rainfall: numeric; monthly rainfall based on the CHELSA climate grids
DEM: numeric; digital elevation based on the SRTM DEM
border: character; country border mask

The gathering of the rainfall data, provided by Giovanni Graziani from the Environment Institute of the Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy), has been undertaken, under JRC-Ispra funding, by the Air pollution Group at Imperial College, London. The Digital Elevation Model has been provided by EROS Data Centre from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/.

Dubois, G. (1998). Spatial interpolation comparison 97: foreword and introduction. Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis, 2(2), 1-10.
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