weathdat: Weather data time series

In ldemaz/rcropmod: Crop model simulations in R

Description

A 30 year weather dataset for one location in southern Zambia

Format

A 3 element list consisting of two 2-element vectors and a data.table with 11684 rows and 6 variables:

• dates: start and end dates of the weather data.

• xyz: latitude, longitude, and elevation of the location.

• dat: weather dataset

  • prec: precipitation (mm)

  • tmax: maximum temperature (degress Celsius)

  • tmin: minimum temperature (degress Celsius)

  • sw: shortwave radiation (MJ/m^2/day)

  • wind: windspeed (km/day)

  • pres: air pressure (kPa)

  • sh: specific humidity (kg/kg)

References

Chaney, N.W., Sheffield, J., Villarini, G. & Wood, E.F. (2014) Spatial Analysis of Trends in Climatic Extremes with a High Resolution Gridded Daily Meteorological Data Set over Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Climate, 27, 5815-5835.

Estes, L.D., Chaney, N.W., Herrera-Estrada, J., Sheffield, J., Caylor, K.K. & Wood, E.F. (2014) Changing water availability during the African maize-growing season, 1979–2010. Environmental Research Letters, 9, 075005.

Examples

data(weathdat)

ldemaz/rcropmod documentation built on Feb. 29, 2020, 10:17 p.m.