bdmep_meta: Metadata on 394 meteorological stations of INMET

In lhmet/inmetr: Import Historical Data from Brazilian Meteorological Stations

Description

Spatial coordinates, altitude and others informations of INMET's meteorological stations.

Usage

bdmep_meta

Format

bdmep_meta is supplied with the inmetr package and consists of the following information in a data frame with 394 rows and 9 columns.

id

station id, character with 5 digits corresponding to OMM code

lon

longitude in decimal degrees

lat

latitude in decimal degrees

alt

altitude in metres

name

station name

state

Full name of state

uf

Federative Unit

time_zone

time zone

offset_utc

UTC offset

Source

bdmep_meta was compiled from http://www.inmet.gov.br/webcdp/climatologia/normais/imagens/normais/planilhas/Relac_Est_Meteo_NC.xls

Examples

head(bdmep_meta)
with(bdmep_meta,
     plot(lon, lat,
     pch = 20,
     col = abs(offset_utc),
     main = "Met. stations of INMET")
     )
legend("bottomleft",
       c("UTC-5", "UTC-4", "UTC-3"),
       col = c(5:3),
       pch = 20,
       title = "time zone")

lhmet/inmetr documentation built on Aug. 27, 2020, 6 a.m.