mscstn                 package:seas                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Meteorological Service of Canada weather station data, including
     national ID, station ID, Province, latitude and longitude.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(mscstn)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     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

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     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.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     M.W. Toews

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

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

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'getstnname', 'mscdata', 'read.msc'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(mscstn)
     str(mscstn)

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

