\docType{data}
\name{weather_SouthAsia}
\alias{weather_SouthAsia}
\title{Weather series for southern Asia from NASA POWER agroclimatology}
\format{a \code{RangedData} instance, 1 row per day.}
\source{
  \url{http://power.larc.nasa.gov/} and
  \url{http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp} and
  \url{http://www.geonames.org/about.html}
}
\description{
  This contemporary daily climate dataset for South Asia
  covers the period 1st January 1997 to 31 December 2008
  with 12 complete years of data with precipitation. It
  cover a part of South Asia (North-East of India,
  Bangladesh, Myanmar, Neapal) with an elevation less than
  2500m. The dataset was extracted from the NASA Langley
  Research Center POWER Project which provide
  agroclimatology dataset (Chandler et al., 2004). It was
  funded through the NASA Earth Science Directorate Applied
  Science Program This climate dataset contains daily
  estimates of precipitation, mean, minimum and maximum
  temperature, relative humidity, dew point, solar
  radiation and wind speed with global coverage at one
  degree resolution (approximately 111 km at the equator).
  The NASA POWER agroclimatology data are derived from
  various sources: solar radiation from satellite
  observations, meteorological data from the Goddard Earth
  Observing System global assimilation model version 4
  (GEOS-4), and precipitation from the Global Precipitation
  Climate Project and Topical Rainfall Measurement Mission.
  A full description can be found at
  \url{http://power.larc.nasa.gov/common/MethodologySSE6/POWER_Methodology_Content.html}
  Elevation (Altitude) were retrive from Aster Global
  Digital Elevation Model by using the Webservice
  api.geonames.org/astergdem? Sample are: ca 30m x 30m,
  between 83N and 65S latitude. Result : a single number
  giving the elevation in meters according to aster gdem,
  ocean areas have been masked as "no data" and have been
  assigned a value of -9999 Example
  http://api.geonames.org/astergdem?lat=50.01&lng=10.2&username=demo
}
\keyword{datasets}

