Describe FMI Variables — describe

Describe FMI observation variable(s).

Usage

describe_variables(x)

Arguments

x: character vector of observation variables to be described.

Value

tibble containing the following columns:

variable: Observation variable name
label: Variable (parameter) label used by the FMI
base_phenomenon: Base phenomenon that the variable is characterising
unit: Variabel unit
stat_function: Statistical function used the derive the variable value
agg_period: Aggregation time period

Details

FMI provides a machine-reabable (XML) description of different observation variables. Use this function to see the specifications of a given variable.

Author

Joona Lehtomäki joona.lehtomaki@iki.fi

Examples

  if (FALSE) {
     desc <- describe_variables(c("TG_PT12H_min", "rrday"))
  }