emyweather

emyweather is an R package that contains climatic data from the Greek National Meteorological Service, as well as a number of useful other related data sets. The climatic data come from 21 weather stations, with a time step of 3 hours and the time period is from 1975 to 2004. For more details checkout the package’s website.

Installation

You can install emyweather from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("kvantas/emyweather")

Using emyweather

This package is comprised of three data sets:

  • emy_data: climatic measurements
  • emy_stations: weather stations’ coordinates and elevation
  • borders: borders of Greece

emy_data

The variables in this data set are:

Variable Description
date The observation’s date
station_id Greek National Meteorological Service station ID
pressure Pressure, in hPa
dry_temp Dry temperature, in degree Celsius
wet_temp Wet temperature, in degree Celsius
max_temp Maximum temperature, in degree Celsius
min_temp Minimum temperature, in degree Celsius
rel_humidity Relative humidity, in percent
wind_direction Wind direction, in degrees
wind_force_knot Wind force, in knots
visibility Visibility, in km
total_cloud_amount Total cloud amount, in values 0 to 9
precipitation Precipitation height, in mm

Please note that these time series are not checked for consistency or errors.

emy_stations

The stations’ data are taken from the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrological and Meteorological Information, Hydroscope using the package hydroscoper. The variables are:

Variable Description
name The station’s name
station_id Greek National Meteorological Service station ID
hydroscope_id The station’s ID from kyy.hydroscope.gr database
water_division The station’s Water Division
longitude The station’s longitude in decimal degrees, ETRS89
latitude The station’s latitude in decimal degrees, ETRS89
altitude The station’s altitude, meters above sea level

borders

The borders of Greece are taken from Geoadata.gov.gr. The variables are created using the function tidy from the broom package for use with geom_polygon from ggplot2.

Meta

  • Please report any issues or bugs.
  • Licence:
    • All code is licensed MIT.
    • All data are from the open data sources in http://www.emy.gr/.

  • To cite emyweather in publications, please use:

      Vantas, (2018). emyweather: R package with open climatic data from the Greek National
  Meteorological Service, URL: https://github.com/kvantas/emyweather,
  DOI:http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1159500

    A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

    @Manual{ vantas2018emy,
author = {Konstantinos Vantas},
title = {{emyweather}: R package with open climatic data from the Greek National Meteorological Service},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1159500},
year = {2018},
note = {R package version 0.2.0},
url = {https://github.com/kvantas/emyweather},
  }

  • Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.