rain_AUS: Climate Data from Australia

In gclawson1/computingpackage: Rainfall statistics, temperature risks, and temperature costs.

Description

Observations were drawn from numerous weather stations. The daily observations are available from http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data. Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2010, Bureau of Meteorology. Data were downloaded from Kaggle. https://www.kaggle.com/jsphyg/weather-dataset-rattle-package/

Usage

rain_AUS

Format

A data frame with 142193 rows and 24 columns

• date year/month/day

• location The common name of the location of the weather station

• MinTemp The minimum temperature in degrees celsius

• MaxTemp The maximum temperature in degrees celsius

• Rainfall The amount of rainfall recorded for the day in mm

• Evaporation The so-called Class A pan evaporation (mm) in the 24 hours to 9am

• Sunshine The number of hours of bright sunshine in the day.

• WindGustDir The direction of the strongest wind gust in the 24 hours to midnight

• WindGustSpeed The speed (km/h) of the strongest wind gust in the 24 hours to midnight

• WindDir9am Direction of the wind at 9am

• WindDir3pm Direction of the wind at 3pm

• WindSpeed9am Wind speed (km/hr) averaged over 10 minutes prior to 9am

• WindSpeed3pm Wind speed (km/hr) averaged over 10 minutes prior to 3pm

• Humidity9am Humidity (percent) at 9am

• Humidity3pm Humidity (percent) at 3pm

• Pressure9am Atmospheric pressure (hpa) reduced to mean sea level at 9am

• Pressure3pm Atmospheric pressure (hpa) reduced to mean sea level at 3pm

• Cloud9am Fraction of sky obscured by cloud at 9am. This is measured in "oktas", which are a unit of eigths. It records how many

• Cloud3pm Fraction of sky obscured by cloud at 3pm. This is measured in "oktas", which are a unit of eigths. It records how many

• Temp9am Temperature (degrees C) at 9am

• Temp3pm Temperature (degrees C) at 3pm

• RainToday Boolean: 1 if precipitation (mm) in the 24 hours to 9am exceeds 1mm, otherwise 0

• RISK_MM The amount of next day rain in mm. Used to create response variable RainTomorrow. A kind of measure of the "risk".

• RainTomorrow The target variable. Did it rain tomorrow?

Author(s)

Naomi

Source

http://sbs.lternet.edu/data/

gclawson1/computingpackage documentation built on June 15, 2019, 2:43 p.m.