utsnow: Snowpack at weather stations in Utah on April 1st, 2011.
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utsnow

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Snowpack at weather stations in Utah on April 1st, 2011.

Description

Water equivalent of snow density (WESD) in mm of water at various location within and surrounding the state of Utah. WESD are measured at weather stations within the Daily Global Historical Climatology Network. April first measurements are used to estimate snowpack for the state of Utah.

Usage

utsnow

Format

An sf points object with 394 rows and 8 variables:

ID: Weather station identification code.
STATION_NAME: Weather station name.
LATITUDE: Latitude of weather station.
LONGITUDE: Longitude of weather station.
ELEVATION: Elevation of weather station.
HUC2: Largest watershed region containing this weather station (see utws data).
WESD: Water equivalent of snow density in mm of water.
geometry: sfc points in geographic coordinates.

Source

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

Examples


# If you run into issues with loading this dataset try running:
utsnow <- sf::st_read(system.file("extdata/utsnow.shp", package="remap"))
names(utsnow) <- c(
  "ID", "STATION_NAME", "LATITUDE", "LONGITUDE", "ELEVATION", "HUC2",
  "WESD", "geometry"
)

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