Kaboega Farm: Weather Station Data

Figure. Monthly temperature values for three weather stations (VF:Floor; VS:Slope; VC:Crest. Monthly mean daily temperatures (black), Monthly mean daily minimum (blue), Monthly minimum daily minimum (blue dotted), Monthly mean daily maximums (red), and Monthly maximum daily maximums.

There are some holes in the datasets. Provided in the table below

## # A tibble: 17 x 5
## # Groups:   Station, Year [13]
##    Station  Year Month MonthlyPPT Ndays
##     <fctr> <dbl> <dbl>      <dbl> <int>
##  1      VF  2012     5        0.4    13
##  2      VF  2013     9        0.2    11
##  3      VF  2014     2        1.8    12
##  4      VF  2015     9        6.6    11
##  5      VS  2012     5        0.4    13
##  6      VS  2012     6       30.0    26
##  7      VS  2012     7        0.0     1
##  8      VS  2013     3        2.6    26
##  9      VS  2014     1       28.8    14
## 10      VS  2014     2       36.0    12
## 11      VS  2015     9        9.8    11
## 12      VS    NA    NA        0.2     1
## 13      VC  2012     5        0.8    13
## 14      VC  2013     1       16.4    13
## 15      VC  2014     1        0.0    14
## 16      VC  2014     2       40.2    12
## 17      VC  2015     9        8.6    11

## Warning: All formats failed to parse. No formats found.

## Warning: Removed 1 rows containing missing values (geom_point).

Figure. Daily precipitation values with days with high precipitation annotated

The two >50 mm datapoints recorded in 2013 at the VC station look problematic. It is also suspicious that there is no subsequent rainfall. Malfunction? Clogging of rain gauge? Check datasheets and memory.

These have created some issues with the monthly precipitation values.

Table of monthly precipitation totals for each weather station.

These have created some issues with the monthly precipitation values.

Table of monthly precipitation totals for each weather station from 2014 onwards.

Figure. Daily precipitation values from 2014 onwards with days with high precipitation annotated

## Warning in (function (data, mapping, alignPercent = 0.6, method =
## "pearson", : Removed 14 rows containing missing values

## Warning: Ignoring unknown aesthetics: Year, Month, Day, Date, VF, VS, VC

## Warning: Ignoring unknown aesthetics: Year, Month, Day, Date, VF, VS, VC

## Warning: Removed 14 rows containing missing values (geom_point).

## Warning: Removed 14 rows containing non-finite values (stat_density).

## Warning in (function (data, mapping, alignPercent = 0.6, method =
## "pearson", : Removed 14 rows containing missing values

## Warning: Ignoring unknown aesthetics: Year, Month, Day, Date, VF, VS, VC

## Warning: Removed 14 rows containing missing values (geom_point).

Figure. Daily precipitation values from 2014 onwards with days with high precipitation annotated