seas (version 0.4-3)

mscstn: Meteorological Service of Canada station information

Description

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

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

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

# NOT RUN {
str(seas::mscstn)

table(mscstn$prov)
plot(lat ~ long, seas::mscstn, pch=".")
# }