GUAN:
GCOS Upper-Air Network (GUAN)
Description
GUAN is a global-scale sampling networks created for many geophysical phenomena. In most cases, the goal of this system is to provide good converge of the entire planet in terms of (i) the desired density of points and (ii) the relative evenness of sample.
Format
A data frame with 172 observations on the following 8 variables.
WMO- a numeric vector, Country(Area) index number
Station.Name- a factor with levels
FIPS- a factor with levels, Federal information processing standards
Latitude- a numeric vector
Longitude- a numeric vector
Elevation- a numeric vector
Begin- a numeric vector
End- a numeric vector
Source
GCOS, 2007. GCOS Upper-Air Network (GUAN): Justification, Requirements,Sitting and Instrument Options. GCOS-112, WMO-TD 1379.References
Robeson, S.M., Li, A., Huang, C., 2014. Point-pattern analysis on the sphere. Spatial Statistics. 10, 76-86.