ISD_documentation: Documentation for NOAA's Integrated Surface Data

In FluentData/ISDr: Download integrated surface data from the National Climatic Data Center

Description

The ISDr package facilitates the downloading of fixed length files from the Integrated Surface Database via ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa. This data set contains documentation for the fields that are available to download. The SHORT_NAME column of this data set corresponds to column names in the ISD files.

Usage

ISD_documentation

Format

An object of class data.frame with 31 rows and 14 columns.

Source

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/ish-format-document.pdf

SHORT_NAME

The column name in the ISD file.

START

The starting position in the fixed width file.

STOP

The stopping position in the fixed width file.

LENGTH

The length of character positions.

LONG_NAME

The name of the column in the NOAA documentation.

DESCRIPTION

The description of the column in the NOAA documentation.

DOM

The domain.

MIN

The minimum value allowed for the column.

MAX

The maximum value allowed for the column.

UNITS

Unit of measurement.

SCALING_FACTOR

Scaling factor for a numeric column.

MISSING

Character value for the column that signifies a missing value.

CLASS

The class of the column when it is read into R.

FIXED_FORMAT

The format for the column that is used in the read.fortran()

FluentData/ISDr documentation built on May 6, 2019, 5:05 p.m.