climatrends

climatrends: Climate Variability Indices for Ecological Modelling

Overview

The climatrends package provides methods to compute precipitation and temperature indices for climate models in ecology. The indices produced here can be used as explanatory variables for ecological modelling, crop modelling, and to assess trends in climate change.

Installation

The package may be installed from CRAN via

install.packages("climatrends")

The development version can be installed via

library("remotes")
install_github("agrdatasci/climatrends", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Example

The default method for the function temperature() has as the basic input one numeric vector with the maximum temperature and one numeric vector with the minimum temperature:

library("climatrends")

data("innlandet", package = "climatrends")

temperature(innlandet$tmax, innlandet$tmin)

   maxDT  minDT maxNT  minNT   DTR    SU    TR   CFD  WSDI  CSDI   T10p  T90p
   <dbl>  <dbl> <dbl>  <dbl> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>  <dbl> <dbl>
1: 15.13 -14.86  6.77 -19.25     6     0     0   115     4     5 -15.81  9.09

The indices can be splitted in intervals for series analysis. Here we get the temperature indices with intervals of 30 days.


temperature(innlandet$tmax, innlandet$tmin,
            dates = innlandet$day, 
            timeseries = TRUE, 
            intervals = 30)

       id       date index  value
    <int>     <date> <chr>  <dbl>
1:      1 2019-01-01 maxDT  -0.15
2:      1 2019-01-01 minDT -14.86
3:      1 2019-01-01 maxNT  -3.41
4:      1 2019-01-01 minNT -18.67
5:      1 2019-01-01   DTR   4.35
---                              
68:     1 2019-05-31   CFD   3.00
69:     1 2019-05-31  WSDI   2.00
70:     1 2019-05-31  CSDI   3.00
71:     1 2019-05-31  T10p   0.20
72:     1 2019-05-31  T90p  11.14

Going further

The full functionality of climatrends is illustrated in the package vignette. The vignette can be found on the package website or from within R once the package has been installed, e.g. via

vignette("Overview", package = "climatrends")

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