Daily Precipitation Time Series for Valparaiso Region (Chile)

Daily time series for the year 1983 on 34 rain gauges of the Valparaiso region (Chile), with more than 90% of days with information (without missing values)

Usage

data(ValparaisoPPts)

Details

Daily time series of ground-based daily precipitation for 1900-2018 were downloaded from a dataset of 816 rain gauges from the Center of Climate and Resilience Research (CR2; https://www.cr2.cl/datos-de-precipitacion/).
The 34 stations in this dataset wer selected because they had less than 10

Format

A zoo object with 34 columns (one for each rain gauge) and 365 rows (one for each day in 1983). colnames(ValparaisoPPts) must coincide with the ID column in ValparaisoPPgis.

Source

The CR2 dataset unifies individual datasets provided by Dirección General de Aguas (DGA) and Dirección Meteorológica de Chile (DMC), the Chilean water and meteorological agencies, respectively.
These data are intended to be used for research purposes only, being distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.