The following code block highlights the locations where weather stations are located across the globe. These stations monitor weather and climate changes:
- Download the shape file of the locations to be plotted on the map from the Climate Change Knowledge portal by the World Bank Group:
world_wc = gpd.read_file('GRDC.shp')world_wc.head() # View the first 5 rows of the data, it is a pandas function
Source URL: http://climate4development.worldbank.org/open/#precipitation
The shape file contains places where Global Weather Stations are located, which monitor weather changes across the globe. Although we use a .shp file here, it requires the corresponding .shx, .sbx, and so on. All the files that are part of the ZIP file should ...