Daily 8-hour ozone averages for sites in the Midwest

Description:

This dataset was taken from the package 'fields' and put into table format. The description in the package is as follows:

The response is 8-hour average (surface) ozone ( from 9AM-4PM) measured in parts per billion (PPB) for 153 sites in the midwestern US over the period June 3,1987 through August 31, 1987, 89 days. This season of high ozone corresponds with a large modeling experiment using the EPA Regional Oxidant Model.

Format:

The csv file has 153 rows (one per site) and 92 fields.

  • lon: longitude coordinate of site

  • lat: latitude coordinate of site

  • station id: unique identifier of station

  • the other 89 columns are the ozone readings on the different days (column names are in year/month/day format).

References:

Nychka, D., Cox, L., Piegorsch, W. (1998) Case Studies in Environmental Statistics Lecture Notes in Statistics, Springer Verlag, New York

Data and Resources

Additional Info

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Maintainer Andrew Zammit Mangion
Last Updated February 6, 2017, 13:16 (Australia/Sydney)
Created December 4, 2014, 09:25 (Australia/Sydney)