weather.stations: Weather Stations

In USGS-R/wrv: Wood River Valley Groundwater-Flow Model

Description

Weather stations in the Wood River Valley and surrounding areas.

Usage

weather.stations

Format

An object of SpatialPointsDataFrame class containing 5 points and the following variables:

name

name of the weather station.

id

unique identifier for the weather station.

type

type of weather stations: "HADS", a Hydrometeorological Automated Data System operated by the National Weather Service Office of Dissemination; "AgriMet", a satellite-telemetry network of automated agricultural weather stations operated and maintained by the Bureau of Reclamation; and "SNOTEL", an automated system of snowpack and related climate sensors operated by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

organization

is the managing organization.

elevation

is the elevation of the weather station in meters above the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88).

Geographic coordinates are in units of meters, in conformance with the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83), and placed in the Idaho Transverse Mercator projection (IDTM).

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Bureau of Reclamation, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), accessed on May 1, 2015

Examples

sp::plot(alluvium.extent)
sp::plot(weather.stations, col = "red", add = TRUE)
str(weather.stations@data)

USGS-R/wrv documentation built on June 30, 2020, 11:07 p.m.