mscstn {seas}R Documentation

Meteorological Survey of Canada station information

Description

Meteorological Survey of Canada (MSC) weather station data, including national ID, station ID, Province, latitude and longitude.

Usage

data(mscstn)

Format

A data.frame with 4493 climate stations with the following 6 variables:

name
Full station name
nid
National ID, alphanumeric key used to distinguish unique weather stations
sid
Station ID, also used for airport codes
prov
Canadian Province
lat
Decimal degrees latitude; NAD83
long
Decimal degrees longitude; NAD83

Details

This data object is used as a look-up table to convert a unique station identifier (nid) or ID into a station name, using getstnname.

Currently, this data only includes weather stations from Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon.

Author(s)

M.W. Toews

Source

Provided by the Meteorological Survey of Canada (http://www.msc.ec.gc.ca/), with permission.

See Also

getstnname, mscdata, read.msc

Examples

data(mscstn)
head(mscstn)
table(mscstn$prov)
plot(lat ~ long, mscstn)

[Package seas version 0.2-1 Index]