mscstn {seas} | R Documentation |
Meteorological Service of Canada weather station data, including national ID, station ID, Province, latitude and longitude.
data(mscstn)
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 |
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.
M.W. Toews
Provided by the Meteorological Service of Canada (http://www.msc.ec.gc.ca/), with permission.
data(mscstn) str(mscstn) table(mscstn$prov) plot(lat ~ long, mscstn, pch=".")