landmask: Land-sea mask

Description Usage Format

Description

A dataframe with gridded locations in the eastern United States and whether each point is land or water. This land-sea mask is used to identify whether hurricane center observations are more likely over land or water, so an appropriate conversion factor can be used to estimate gradient winds from sustained surface winds.

Usage

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Format

A dataframe with 30,351 rows and 3 variables:

longitude

A numeric vector with the longitude of the grid point

latitude

A numeric vector with the latitude of the grid point

land

A factor specifying whether that grid point is land or water


stormwindmodel documentation built on July 27, 2020, 9:06 a.m.