README.md

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

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.