mscstn {seas}R Documentation

Meteorological Service of Canada station information

Description

Meteorological Service of Canada 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 columns:
name Full station name
nid National ID, alphanumeric key
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 Service of Canada (http://www.msc.ec.gc.ca/), with permission.

See Also

getstnname, mscdata, read.msc

Examples

data(mscstn)
str(mscstn)

table(mscstn$prov)
plot(lat ~ long, mscstn, pch=".")

[Package seas version 0.3-8 Index]