Vargas: Rainfall in Vargas, Venezuela

In vetools: Tools for Venezuelan Environmental Data

Description

Daily, monthly and quarterly precipitation values for meteorological stations located in the Vargas state, Venezuela.

There are two collections (data sets) of precipitation, Vargas and Vargas2, both data sets have the same source of meteorological stations located in the Vargas state, Venezuela. Data sets follows vetools Catalog Convention. See Catalog Convention.

Usage

        data(Vargas)
        data(Vargas2)

Format

The first collection Vargas contains four lists of 33 elements:

Vargas$catalog

list of each station's meta data. Follows vetools Catalog Convention. To see meta data summary(Vargas).

Vargas$daily

list containing each station's daily time-series of class "ts" of frequency 365.25.

Vargas$data

list containing each station's monthly time-series of class "ts" of frequency 12.

Vargas$quarterly

list containing each station's quarterly time-series of class "ts" of frequency 4. The quarters are defined in base of Venezuela's rainy season: Feb-Apr, May-Jul, Aug-Oct, Nov-Jan.

The "data" and "quarterly" member series where built upon daily using the command tssum with arguments meses=1:12 and meses=c(2, 5, 8, 11) respectively.

The second collection Vargas2 contains three elements:

Vargas2$catalog

list of 32 station's meta data. Follows vetools Catalog Convention. To see meta data summary(Vargas2).

Vargas2$data

list of length 32 containing each station's time-series of class "ts" on monthly basis. These series where completed using the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm.

Vargas2$statewise

representative time-serie for the whole Vargas state. This series was build upon Vargas2$data.

Details

This data set provides day, monthly, quarterly and representative precipitation for 33 (32) meteorological stations located in the Vargas state of Venezuela. The region is delimited between -66.30917, -67.35 degrees and 10.46667 and 10.63 degrees (North), stations height vary between 0 and 1537 metres above sea level. Time-series for statios vary between 1948 and 2006.

The data set was imported into R using read.MARN function.

Source

Ministerio de Agricultura y Recursos Naturales. Divisi<c3><b3>n De Hidrolog<c3><ad>a, Meteorolog<c3><ad>a y Oceanolog<c3><ad>a (http://www.minamb.gob.ve/).

See Also

CuencaCaroni, vetools Catalog Convention, read.MARN, disaggregate.MARN, tssum.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(Vargas, package='vetools')
summary(Vargas)
plot(Vargas$data[[2]])
start(Vargas$data[[1]])
end(Vargas$data[[1]])
frequency(Vargas$daily[[1]])
cat(Vargas$catalog[[1]]$Name)
## End(Not run)

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