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Daily Global Weather Measurements

T.Hengl - Sat, 04/10/2010 - 17:06
Short title: 
get GSOD data
Purpose and use: 
Import, formating and binding of the Daily Global Weather Measurements, 1929-2009 (NCDC, GSOD)
Programming environment: 
R / S language
Status of work: 
Tested on a MS Windows machine only
Reference: 
A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping
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GSOD20080501.zip343.02 KB13893 days 7 hours ago
getGSOD.R5.76 KB21242 days 20 hours ago

Description of files available via the NCDC website. This is an extensive dataset and requires substantial storage and processing capacities - each station is saved in a separate directory and needs to be processed separately. The attached example shows temperature and precipitation measurements for 1st of May 2006.