| Title: | Collection of Datasets from the ASA 2006 Data Expo |
| Version: | 0.1.1 |
| Description: | Tidied data from the ASA 2006 data expo, as well as a number of useful other related data sets. |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.1.0) |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| LazyData: | true |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.3.2 |
| URL: | https://github.com/hadley/nasaweather |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/hadley/nasaweather/issues |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2025-05-09 18:37:27 UTC; hadleywickham |
| Author: | Hadley Wickham 
[aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Hadley Wickham <hadley@posit.co> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2025-05-09 23:50:02 UTC |
Atmospheric data.
Description
Atmospheric data.
Usage
atmos
Format
- lat,long
Location of measurement. Evenly spaced 24 by 24 spatial grid from longitude 113.8W to 56.2W and from latitude 36.2N to 21.2S
- year,month
72 points in time; once per month from Jan 1995 to Dec 2000.
- surftemp
Mean Surface Temperature from Clear Sky Composite (ts): The monthly mean temperature based on the energy being emitted from the Earth's surface under clear sky conditions (in K).
- temp
Mean Near-Surface Air Temperature (tsa_tovs): The monthly mean temperature of the air near the surface of the Earth (in K).
- pressure
Mean Surface Pressure (ps_tovs): The monthly mean atmospheric surface pressure at a given location on the Earth's surface. (in mb)
- ozone
Mean Ozone Abundance (o3_tovs): The monthly mean amount of total ozone in the atmospheric column (in Dobsons)
- cloudlow
Mean Low Cloud Coverage (ca_low): The monthly mean percent of the sky covered by clouds with cloud top pressure greater than 680 mb or roughly less than 3.24 km.
- cloudmid
Mean Medium Cloud Coverage (ca_med): The monthly mean percent of the sky covered by clouds with cloud top pressure between 440 - 680 mb or roughly 3.24 to 6.5 km.
- cloudhigh
Mean High Cloud Coverage (ca_high): The monthly mean percent of the sky covered by clouds with cloud top pressure less than or equal to 440 mb or roughly greater than 6.5 km.
Source
https://community.amstat.org/jointscsg-section/dataexpo/dataexpo2006
Country borders
Description
Admin 0 (country) borders for the region
Usage
borders
Format
- country
ISO2 country code
- long,lat
Location
- group
Grouping variable need to separate islands etc.
Source
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/
Elevation.
Description
As of Jan 1998.
Usage
elev
Format
- lat,long
Location of measurement. Evenly spaced 24 by 24 spatial grid from longitude 113.8W to 56.2W and from latitude 36.2N to 21.2S
- elev
Height of location above reference plane (in m)
Source
https://community.amstat.org/jointscsg-section/dataexpo/dataexpo2006
Glacier locations
Description
Downloaded by Dianne Cook.
Usage
glaciers
Format
- id
A 12-character unique glacier identifier
- name
30-character name of the glacier.
- lat,long
Location of the glacier: "The point on the glacier whose coordinates are given should be in the upper part of the ablation area, in the main stream and sufficiently high so as not to be lost if the glacier retreats"
- area
The total area of the glacier in a horizontal projection in square kilometers, up to 6 digits.
- country
2-character abbreviation for the name of the country or territory in which the glacier is located. These codes are ISO3166 country codes
Source
http://nsidc.org/data/glacier_inventory/
Storm tracks data
Description
Tropical cyclone tracks through the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico from 1995 to 2000. Only "named" storms, those which reached tropical storm status or stronger, are included.
Usage
storms
Format
- name
Storm Name
- year,month,day
Date of report
- hour
Hour of report (0, 6, 12 or 18, in UTC)
- lat,long
Location of storm center
- pressure
Air pressure at the storm's center (in millibars)
- wind
wtorm's maximum sustained wind speed (in knots)
- type
Storm classification (Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, Hurricane, or Extratropical)
- seasday
Day of the hurricane season (days since June 1)
- category
Saffir-Simpson storm category (estimated from windspeed. -1 = Tropical Depression, 0 = Tropical Storm)
Details
The data originated from the National Hurricane Center's archive of Tropical Cyclone Reports (https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/). This dataset was hand-scraped from best track tables in the individual tropical cyclone reports (PDF, HTML and Microsoft Word) by Jon Hobbs.
The Tropical Cyclone Reports had a variety of storm type designations and there appeared to be no consistent naming convention for cyclones that were not hurricanes, tropical depressions, or tropical storms. Many of these designations have been combined into the "Extratropical" category in this dataset.
Author(s)
Jon Hobbs