Daily mean wind speed (in km/h) at four stations in the south of France, namely Cap Cepet (S1), Lyon St-Exupery (S2), Marseille Marignane (S3) and Montelimar (S4).
The data includes observations from January 1976 until April 2023; days containing missing values are omitted.
Format
A data frame with 17209 observations and 8 variables:
datedate of measurement
S1wind speed (in km/h) at Cap Cepet
S2wind speed (in km/h) at Lyon Saint-Exupery
S3wind speed (in km/h) at Marseille Marignane
S4wind speed (in km/h) at Montelimar
H2humidity (in percentage) at Lyon Saint-Exupery
T2mean temperature (in degree Celcius) at Lyon Saint-Exupery
The metadata attribute includes latitude and longitude (in degrees, minutes, seconds), altitude (in m), station name and station id.
Source
European Climate Assessment and Dataset project https://www.ecad.eu/
References
Klein Tank, A.M.G. and Coauthors, 2002. Daily dataset of 20th-century surface air temperature and precipitation series for the European Climate Assessment. Int. J. of Climatol., 22, 1441-1453.
Examples
data(frwind, package = "mev")
head(frwind)
#> date S1 S2 S3 S4 H2 T2
#> 1 1976-01-01 30.96 1.80 5.40 19.80 94 1.0
#> 2 1976-01-02 48.60 7.56 23.04 16.20 84 4.8
#> 3 1976-01-03 66.60 7.92 36.00 20.88 84 6.4
#> 4 1976-01-04 31.68 16.20 41.04 40.32 78 2.4
#> 5 1976-01-05 14.40 3.60 6.48 27.36 84 -0.2
#> 6 1976-01-06 7.92 10.08 14.76 34.20 82 3.8
attr(frwind, which = "metadata")
#> latitude longitude altitude station id
#> 1 43.07944 5.940833 115 Cap Cepet 11248
#> 2 45.72639 5.077778 235 Lyon Saint Exupery 37
#> 3 43.43778 5.216111 9 Marseille Marignane 39
#> 4 44.58111 4.733056 73 Montelimar 786