getecsn {clim.pact}R Documentation

Retrieve daily station record from ECSN set.

Description

Reads the data from Nordklim available at URL: http://eca.knmi.nl/dailydata/predefinedseries.php. Also see http://www.eumetnet.eu.org/contecsn.html and getgiss.

THESE DATA CAN BE USED FREELY PROVIDED THAT THE FOLLOWING SOURCE IS ACKNOWLEDGED: Klein Tank, A.M.G. and Coauthors (2002) 'Daily dataset of 20th-century surface air temperature and precipitation series for the European Climate Assessment.' Int. J. of Climatol., 22, 1441-1453. Data and metadata available at http://eca.knmi.nl

Usage

getecsn(location="prompt",param=c("TG","RR"),dataset="blended",data.path="data.eca",country=NULL,
               update = FALSE)

Arguments

location name of climate station location.
param name of element [e.g. avail.elem(), or 't2m', 'rr', 'slp'].
dataset "blended" (GCOS + EUMETNET), "gcos", or ."eumetnet"
data.path name of directory in which the data are stored.
country Country to search for stations.
update For downloading new data.

Value

a <- list of "daily.station.record" class.

Author(s)

R.E. Benestad

Examples

## Not run: 
obs <- getecsn("helsinki")
plotStation(obs)
## End(Not run)

[Package clim.pact version 2.2-15 Index]