stations: List of all the DEFRA air quality monitoring stations with...
In rdefra: Interact with the UK AIR Pollution Database from DEFRA

This is the list of all the air quality monitoring stations ever installed in the UK and operated by DEFRA networks (as per February 2016). As the network expands, metadata for new stations will be added.

1	data("stations")

A data frame with 6561 observations on the following 14 variables.

UK.AIR.ID: ID reference for monitoring stations
EU.Site.ID: EU.Site.ID
EMEP.Site.ID: EMEP.Site.ID
Site.Name: Site name
Environment.Type: a factor with levels Background Rural Background Suburban Background Urban Industrial Suburban Industrial Unknown Industrial Urban Traffic Urban Unknown Unknown
Zone: Zone
Start.Date: Start date
End.Date: End date
Latitude: Latitude (WGS 84)
Longitude: Longitude (WGS 84)
Northing: Northing coordinate (British National Grid)
Easting: Easting coordinate (British National Grid)
Altitude..m.: Altitude in metres above sea level
Networks: Monitoring Networks
AURN.Pollutants.Measured: Pollutant measured
Site.Description: Description of the site.
SiteID: Site ID, used to retrieve time series data.