cantemp_meta: Fetch metadata for 338 Canadian climate stations

In patrickbarks/cantempr: Canadian Homogenized Temperature Data in R

Description

Fetch a tidy data.frame with metadata for 338 Canadian climate stations, including latitude, longitude, elevation, information on the temporal extent of the temperature data, and whether the temperature data was derived from multiple joined weather stations.

Usage

cantemp_meta()

Value

A data.frame with metadata for 338 Canadian climate stations.

prov

Two-letter abbreviation for province

station

Name of climate station

stnid

Climate station identifier

beg_yr

Year of first temperature observation

beg_mon

Integer month of first temperature observation

end_yr

Year of final temperature observation

end_mon

Integer month of final temperature observation

lat

Station latitude in decimal degrees

lon

Station longitude in decimal degrees

elev

Station elevation in meters

stn_joined

Logical value indicating whether or not the given 'station' is based on multiple joined weather stations

Author(s)

Patrick M. Barks <[e-mail]>

References

Vincent, L. A., X. L. Wang, E. J. Milewska, H. Wan, F. Yang, and V. Swail (2012). A second generation of homogenized Canadian monthly surface air temperature for climate trend analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research 117(D18110). https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JD017859

Examples

stn_metadata <- cantemp_meta()

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