precipitation: Precipitation data

In npsp: Nonparametric Spatial Statistics

Precipitation data

Description

The data set consists of total precipitations during March 2016 recorded over 1053 locations on the continental part of USA.

Format

A SpatialPointsDataFrame with 1053 observations on the following 6 variables:

y

total precipitations (square-root of rainfall inches),

WBAN

five-digit Weather station identifier,

state

factor containing the U.S. state,

and the following attributes:

labels

list with data and variable labels,

border

SpatialPolygons with the boundary of the continental part of USA,

interior

SpatialPolygons with the U.S. state boundaries.

Source

National Climatic Data Center:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datasets.

References

Fernandez-Casal R., Castillo-Paez S. and Francisco-Fernandez M. (2017) Nonparametric geostatistical risk mapping, Stoch. Environ. Res. Ris. Assess., \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/s00477-017-1407-y")}.

Fernandez-Casal R., Castillo-Paez S. and Garcia-Soidan P. (2017) Nonparametric estimation of the small-scale variability of heteroscedastic spatial processes, Spa. Sta., \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.spasta.2017.04.001")}.

Examples

summary(precipitation)
scattersplot(precipitation)

npsp documentation built on May 29, 2024, 5:31 a.m.