climate: Daily weather summaries for California from 2011 through 2015

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

A dataframe containing daily weather summaries for California at the county level. It is created from summarizing the measurements from GHCND stations to the daily level and by filtering on the date (2011 - 2015), state (CA), and key cols.

Usage

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Format

A dataframe with 105850 rows and 7 variables:

fips

Five-digit code combining the state and county codes from the FIPS publication 6-4 for counties

date

Date on which the climate measures were recorded

prcp

precipitation, in mm

snow

snowfall, in mm

snwd

snow depth, in mm

tmax

maximum temperature, in degrees Celsius

tmin

minumum temperature, in degrees Celsius

Details

Data from the Daily Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-Daily) through the NOAA FTP server. The data is archived at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (formerly the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)), and spans from the 1800s to the current year.

Source

https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cdo/documentation/GHCND_documentation.pdf


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