landmask: Land-sea mask

landmaskR Documentation

Land-sea mask

Description

A dataframe with gridded locations worldwide indicating whether each point is land or water. This land-sea mask is used to identify whether hurricane center observations are more likely over land or water, so an appropriate conversion factor can be used to estimate gradient winds from sustained surface winds.

Usage

landmask

Format

A dataframe with 1,082,401 rows and 3 variables:

longitude

A numeric vector with the longitude of the grid point

latitude

A numeric vector with the latitude of the grid point

land

A factor specifying whether that grid point is land or water


geanders/stormwindmodel documentation built on Sept. 27, 2022, 6:47 a.m.