seas (version 0.3-3)

mscstn: 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: rl{ 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 }

source

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

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.

See Also

getstnname, mscdata, read.msc

Examples

data(mscstn)
str(mscstn)

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