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Snowfall Frequency by WMO Station

Average annual and monthly number of days with snowfall for 9 nations

This dataset contains information on the average monthly occurences of snowfall for 236 weather stations throughout 9 countries. Data from a vast majority of the stations comes from the latest global standard normals period, 1961-1990. For each weather station, the station's name, ID, and geolocation are available.

(19 columns, 236 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

View the data:

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ResourceData["Snowfall Frequency by WMO Station"]
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Visualization

Show the locations of the WMO Stations in France:

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GeoListPlot[ ResourceData["Snowfall Frequency by WMO Station"][ Select[Head[#Coordinates] == GeoPosition &]][All, "Coordinates"], GeoRange -> Entity["Country", "France"]]
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Plot snow frequency from January to December for WMO stations in France:

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DateListPlot[ Select[ResourceData["Snowfall Frequency by WMO Station"], MatchQ["Country" /. Normal[#], Entity["Country", "France"]] &][ All, {6 ;; 17}]]
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Show annual snow frequency at each station WMO location in France:

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GeoRegionValuePlot[ Rule @@@ ResourceData["Snowfall Frequency by WMO Station"][ Select[#Country == Entity["Country", "France"] &]] [All, {"Coordinates", "Annual"}], ColorFunction -> "Rainbow"]
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Wolfram Research, "Snowfall Frequency by WMO Station" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.28175.data

License Information

Public Domain

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: Number Days With Snowfall
  • Creator: World Meteorological Organization
  • Publisher: United Nations Statistics Division
  • Date: 14 July 2010
  • Coverage: Europe, Middle East, and Japan 1956-1990
  • Language: English
  • Source: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=CLINO&f=ElementCode%3a56

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research