Large Data Set

• Locations

  8 locations, 5 in the Uk and 3 international
• UK locations

  Leuchars: town in Scotland

  Leeming: village in North Yorkshire

  Heathrow: hamlet in Greater London

  Hurn: village in Dorset

  Camborne: town in Cornwall
• International locations

  Beijing: capital city of China

  Perth: capital city of Western Australia

  Jacksonville: city in Florida, USA
• time periods

  May to October 1987

  May to October 2015
• variables included

  daily mean air temp, daily total rainfall, daily total sunshine, daily maximum relative humidity, daily mean windspeed and direction, daily maximum gust and direction, cloud cover, daily mean visibility, daily mean pressure
• trace of rain (tr)


  amount less than 0.05 mm
• missing data

  listed as 'n/a' or '-'

  total daily total sunshine, mean windspeed and maximum gust is unknown for the first half of May 1987 for the UK cities

  data should be cleaned before samples taken
• important features

  Jacksonville, Perth, Camborne, Hurn, Leuchars near the coast

  cloud cover is discrete

  can use 0 or 0.025 for rainfall listed as 'tr'
• Great storm of 1987


  happened 15-16 October in Uk:

  wind speeds were high at this time

  south of England was affected

  this will skew some variables
• days in each month

  30: June, September

  31: May, July, August, October

  covers 184 days in total