In kvantas/emyweather: Open climatic data from the Greek National Meteorological Service

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emyweather

emyweather is an R package that contains climatic data from the Greek National Meteorological Service, as well as a number of useful other related data sets. The climatic data come from 21 weather stations, with a time step of 3 hours and the time period is from 1975 to 2004. For more details checkout the package's website.

Installation

You can install emyweather from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("kvantas/emyweather")

Using emyweather

This package is comprised of three data sets:

• emy_data: climatic measurements
• emy_stations: weather stations' coordinates and elevation
• borders: borders of Greece

emy_data

The variables in this data set are:

| Variable | Description | |-------------------|-------------------------------------------------| |date |The observation's date | |station_id |Greek National Meteorological Service station ID | |pressure |Pressure, in hPa | |dry_temp |Dry temperature, in degree Celsius | |wet_temp |Wet temperature, in degree Celsius | |max_temp |Maximum temperature, in degree Celsius | |min_temp |Minimum temperature, in degree Celsius | |rel_humidity |Relative humidity, in percent | |wind_direction |Wind direction, in degrees | |wind_force_knot |Wind force, in knots | |visibility |Visibility, in km | |total_cloud_amount |Total cloud amount, in values 0 to 9 | |precipitation |Precipitation height, in mm |

Please note that these time series are not checked for consistency or errors.

emy_stations

The stations' data are taken from the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Hydroscope using the package hydroscoper. The variables are:

| Variable | Description | |---------------|---------------------------------------------------| | name |The station's name | | station_id |Greek National Meteorological Service station ID | | hydroscope_id |The station's ID from kyy.hydroscope.gr database | | water_division|The station's Water Division | | longitude |The station's longitude in decimal degrees, ETRS89 | | latitude |The station's latitude in decimal degrees, ETRS89 | | altitude |The station's altitude, meters above sea level |

borders

The borders of Greece are taken from Geoadata.gov.gr. The variables are created using the function tidy from the broom package for use with geom_polygon from ggplot2.

Meta

• Please report any issues or bugs.
• Licence:
  • All code is licensed MIT.
  • All data are from the open data sources in http://www.emy.gr/.
• To cite emyweather in publications, please use:

  Vantas, (2018). emyweather: R package with open climatic data from the Greek National
  Meteorological Service, URL: https://github.com/kvantas/emyweather,
  DOI:http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1159500

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

@Manual{ vantas2018emy,
    author = {Konstantinos Vantas},
    title = {{emyweather}: R package with open climatic data from the Greek National Meteorological Service},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1159500},
    year = {2018},
    note = {R package version 0.2.0},
    url = {https://github.com/kvantas/emyweather},
  }

• Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

References

• GEODATA.gov.gr
• Hydroscope
• National Meteorological Service

kvantas/emyweather documentation built on May 13, 2019, 8:39 a.m.