getnacd {clim.pact} | R Documentation

## Retreave station record from the NACD set.

### Description

Retrieve station record from the North Atlantic Climate Data (NACD) set: URL http://www.dmi.dk/. Also see `getdnmi` and `getnordklim`.

### Usage

    getnacd(location="prompt",ele.c='101',ascii=FALSE,silent=FALSE,direc="data")

### Arguments

`location` | name of climate station location or NACD station number.
`ele.c` | name of element [e.g. avail.elem(), or 't2m', 'rr', 'slp'].
`ascii` | Flag. T -> force ascii read, otherwise look for R-formatted verion (faster).
`silent` | Flag. F -> print error messages.
`direc` | name of directory in which the data are stored.

### Value

a <- list of "monthly.station.record" class:

val | The monthly values (a 12-column matrix with one column for each year).
station | station number.
yy | The years of observation (vector).
lat,lon | Latitude and longitude of the location.
x.0E65N,y.0E65N | Distance in km from 0E, 65N.
location | Name of location .
wmo.no | WMO number.
start | Start of observatins from this location.
yy0 | First year in current record.
ele | Code of theelement.
obs.name | Name of the element.
unit | Unit of the element.
country | The country in which the location is located.
quality | Code/description for data quality.
found | Flag: T - the data requested was found.
ref | Reference for the data set.

### Author(s)

R.E. Benestad

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    helsinki.rr <- getnacd("helsinki",ele=601)
    obs.t2m <- getnacd()
    ## End(Not run)

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