isd_metadata: NOAA ISD metadata data.frame

In ropensci/isdparser: Parse 'NOAA' Integrated Surface Data Files

NOAA ISD metadata data.frame

Description

This data.frame includes metadata describing all the data provided in ISD data files. And is used for transforming and scaling variables.

Format

A data frame with 643 rows and 19 columns

Details

Original csv data is in inst/extdata/isd_metadata.csv, collected from

The data.frame has the following columns:

• pos - (chr) position, if any

• category - (chr) category, one of additional-data section, control-data section, element quality data section, mandatory-data section, original observation data section, or remarks data section

• sub_category - (chr) sub category label, one of climate reference network unique data, cloud and solar data, ground surface data, hail data, marine data, network metadata, precipitation-data, pressure data, runway visual range data, sea surface temperature, soil temperature data, temperature data, weather occurrence data, weather-occurrence-data, or wind data

• abbrev - (chr) abbreviation, if any, NA for control and mandatory sections

• label - (chr) label, a top level label for the data, usually the same as the abbreviation

• sub_label - (chr) sub label, a more detailed label about the variable

• field_length - (int) field length, number of characters

• min - (chr) minimum value, if applicable, original

• min_numeric - (int) minimum value, if applicable, integer

• max - (chr) maximum value, if applicable, original

• max_numeric - (chr) maximum value, if applicable, integer

• units - (chr) units, if applicable

• scaling_factor - (chr) scaling factor, original

• scaling_factor_numeric - (int) scaling factor, integer, one of 1, 10, 100, 1000, or NA

• missing - (chr) value used to indicate missing data, original

• missing_numeric - (int) value used to indicate missing data, integer, one of 9, 99, 999, 9999, 99999, 999999, or NA

• description - (chr) short description of variable

• dom - (chr) long description of variable with categories

• dom_parsed_json - (list) NA if no categories, or a named list with category labels and their values

ropensci/isdparser documentation built on Sept. 12, 2022, 8:01 a.m.