``` {r setup, include = FALSE} library(StormR)
The `temporalBehaviour()` function allows computing wind speed and direction for a given location or set of locations along the lifespan of a tropical cyclone. It also allows to compute to compute three associated summary statistics: the maximum sustained wind speed (`product="MSW"`), the power dissipation index (`product="PDI"`) and the duration of exposure to winds reaching defined speed thresholds along the life span of the cyclones (`product="Exposure"`). In the following example we use the `test_dataset` provided with the package to illustrate how cyclone track data can be used to compute and plot time series of wind speed and direction and how to compute summary statistics for specific locations, as described below. ### Computing and plotting time series of wind speed and direction We compute and plot time series of the speed and direction of winds generated by the topical cyclone Pam (2015) in two of the main cities of Vanuatu, Port Vila (longitude = 168.33, latitude = -17.73) and Luganville (longitude = 167.17, latitude = -15.53). The coordinates of the two locations of interest are provided in a data frame as follows: ``` {r} df <- data.frame(x = c(168.33, 167.17), y = c(-17.73, -15.53)) rownames(df) <- c("Port_Vila", "Luganville")
The track data for Pam nearby Vanuatu are extracted as follows:
sds <- defStormsDataset() st <- defStormsList(sds = sds, loi = "Vanuatu", names = "PAM", verbose = 0) plotStorms(st) points(df$x, df$y, pch = 3, col = c("blue", "red")) text(df$x, df$y, labels = c("Port Vila", "Luganville"), pos = 2, col = c("blue", "red"), cex = 0.8)
Then the temporalBehaviour()
function with the product = "TS"
argument is
used to compute time series. By default the temporal resolution of is set to 1
hour but can be changed using the tempRes
argument. Here we set the temporal
resolution to 30 min with tempRes=0.5
as follows:
TS <- temporalBehaviour(st, points = df, product = "TS", tempRes = 30, verbose = 0)
With the above specification the temporalBehaviour()
function returns a list
of two data frames (i.e., one for each location) with the wind speed ("speed"),
direction ("direction"), indices of the observations and the date and time of
the observation ("isoTimes").
str(TS)
We use the data frame and the plotTemporal()
function to draw time series plots for wind speed and wind
direction as follows:
``` {r , include = FALSE} oldpar <- par(mar = c(10, 4, 4, 2))
``` {r} plotTemporal(data=TS, storm="PAM")
``` {r , include = FALSE} dev.off()
``` {r} plotTemporal(data=TS, storm="PAM", var='direction')
``` {r , include = FALSE} par(oldpar) dev.off()
Maximum sustained wind speed for Port Vila and Luganville can be computed as follows: ``` {r} max(TS$PAM$Port_Vila$speed, na.rm = TRUE) max(TS$PAM$Luganville$speed, na.rm = TRUE)
The power dissipation index is computed using the product = "PDI"
argument as
follows:
PDI <- temporalBehaviour(st, points = df, product = "PDI", tempRes = 30, verbose = 0) PDI
The duration of exposure is computed using the product = "Exposure"
argument
as follows:
exposure_SS <- temporalBehaviour(st, points = df, product = "Exposure", tempRes = 30, verbose = 0) exposure_SS
By default, the function returns the duration of exposure (in hours) to wind
speeds above the thresholds used by the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale
(i.e., 18, 33, 42, 49, 58, and 70 $m.s^{-1}$). However, different thresholds can
be set using the wind_threshold
arguments. We can use the thresholds used by
the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to rank tropical cyclones intensity as
follow:
wt <- c(17.2, 24.4, 32.5, 44.2, 55.0) exposure_BOM <- temporalBehaviour(st, points = df, product = "Exposure", tempRes = 30, windThreshold = wt, verbose = 0) exposure_BOM
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