mscstn: Meteorological Service of Canada station information

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Meteorological Service of Canada station information

Description

Meteorological Service of Canada weather station data, including national ID, station ID, Province, latitude and longitude.

Format

A data.frame with 4493 climate stations with the following 6 columns:

name	Full station name
nid	National ID, alphanumeric key
sid	Station ID, also used for airport codes
prov	Canadian Province
lat	Decimal degrees latitude; NAD83
long	Decimal degrees longitude; NAD83

Details

This data object is used as a look-up table to convert a unique station identifier (nid) or ID into a station name, using getstnname.

Currently, this data only includes weather stations from Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon.

Author(s)

Mike Toews

Source

Provided by the Meteorological Service of Canada, with permission.

See Also

getstnname, mscdata, read.msc

Examples

str(seas::mscstn)

table(mscstn$prov)
plot(lat ~ long, seas::mscstn, pch=".")

seas documentation built on June 8, 2025, 11:32 a.m.