climate                package:assist                R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The data frame 'climate', obrained from the Carbon Dioxide
     Information and Analysis Center, has 690 rows and 5 columns of
     data representing station winter temperature measurements.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(climate)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     The data frame contains the following columns:

     temp a numeric vector of temperatures in celsius.

     lat, long numeric vectors identifying the lattitudes and
     longitudes of the stations in.

     lat.degree, long.degree  numeric vectors identifying the
     lattitudes and longitudes of the stations in degree.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The station winter average temperatures were the averages of the
     December, January and Febuary monthly average temperatures
     obtained from the Jones/Wigley data files obtainable from the
     CDIAC at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the files
     ndp020r1/jonesnh.data.Z and ndp020r1/jonessh.dat.Z in the pbu
     directory at 128.219.24.36.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Jones, P., Wigley, T. and Briffa, K.. lobal and hemisphere
     temperature anaomalies-land and marine instrumental records. In T.
     Boden, D. Kaiser, R. Sepanski, and F. Stoss, editors, Trends '93:
     A Compendium of Data on Global Change, ORNL/CDIAC-65, pages 
     603-608, Oak Ridge, TN 1994. CDIAC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

