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Monthly climatologies - Climate Data Base

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The dataset contains the 1981 – 2010 monthly climatologies of mean, minimum and maximum temperature and total precipitation for more than 250 locations in Trentino – South Tyrol. They were derived from the observation records of the regional meteorological network after checking all series for quality and homogeneity. Climatologies (or normals) are the mean monthly values computed over a 30-years reference interval and they represent the mean local climatic conditions. The CDB was built in the framework of the Use-Case number 8 of the DPS4ESLAB project.

meteo, precipitation, temperature, cct, ground station, climatology

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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#To set up the connection, the following two packages are required.

library(DBI)
library(RPostgres)

#Using the tidyverse in R, we can circumvent the direct usage of SQL language, and can use the more user-friendly dplyr syntax. For this we need these packages.

library(dplyr)
library(dbplyr)

#For data wrangling and visualization we will use these packages.

library(sf)
library(lubridate)
library(ggplot2)
library(mapview)

#Set up the connection
#The following sets up the connection to the SQL database. This is currently only possible within the ScientificNet. The parameters are copied from the documentation.

conn <- dbConnect(Postgres(), 
                  dbname = "climate_data", 
                  host = "10.7.18.68", 
                  port = 5432, 
                  user = "climate_user",
                  password = "meteo_data")
##################################
#List the available tables.

dbListTables(conn)

#The daily values are stored in the table stations_data.
tbl(conn, "stations_data")

#The climatologies (averages for the period 1981-2010) values are stored in the table climatologies.
tbl(conn, "climatologies")

#And finally the metadata with the station locations and more info on the processing in metadata.
tbl(conn, "metadata")

##########################
#Additional examples for create map and plots are available at: http://edp-doc.eurac.edu/cdb_doc/notebooks/Access-CDB-R-ubuntu.html
##########################
Related docs
Name Description Link Date published Category
Connection to PostgreSQL database Necessary steps to connect to the PostgreSQL DB. Example with the Cimate Database. Available only inside ScientificNet Link June 10, 2021 PostgreSQL
Climatic and Hydrological timeseries This page contains description and documentastion of Climate DB, ADO and 4DMED projects Link April 14, 2023 PostgreSQL