plotStorms: Plotting storm track data

In StormR: Analyzing the Behaviour of Wind Generated by Tropical Storms and Cyclones

Plotting storm track data

Description

This plotStorms() function allows plotting storm track data stored in a StormsList object.

Usage

plotStorms(
  sts,
  names = NULL,
  category = NULL,
  xlim = NULL,
  ylim = NULL,
  labels = FALSE,
  by = 8,
  pos = 3,
  legends = "topright",
  loi = TRUE,
  dynamicPlot = FALSE
)

Arguments

sts	StormsList object
names	character vector. Name(s) of the storm(s) in capital letters. If names = NULL (default setting), all storms are plotted.
category	numeric vector. Category of storms to be plotted among the level in the windscale provided in sts input. If category=NULL (default setting), all storms are plotted.
xlim	numeric vector. The x limits of the plot.
ylim	numeric vector. The y limits of the plot.
labels	logical. Whether (TRUE) or not (FALSE, default setting) to add labels with the name of the storm and the indices and ISO times of the observation.
by	numeric. If labels=TRUE, defines the frequency at which labels are plotted. Default value is set to 8 which corresponds to a 24h (or 48h) time interval between the labelled observations when observations are made every 3 (or 6) hours.
pos	numeric. If labels=TRUE, defines the position of the labels, 1 (above the observation), 2 (on the left), 3 (below, default setting), and 4 (on the right).
legends	character. Indicates where to plot the legend, "topright"(default setting), "topleft", "bottomleft", "bottomright", or "none" (legend not plotted).
loi	logical. Whether (TRUE, default setting) or not (FALSE) to plot the extent of the buffered location of interest on the map.
dynamicPlot	logical. Whether (FALSE, default setting) or (TRUE) to plot the data dynamicaly using leaflet library

Value

A plot of the storm track data.

Examples

#' #Creating a stormsDataset

dev.off()
sds <- defStormsDataset()

# Getting storm track data for tropical cyclone Pam (2015)
pam <- defStormsList(sds = sds, loi = "Vanuatu", names = "PAM")

# Plotting Pam over Vanuatu with labels every 24h
plotStorms(sts =pam, labels = TRUE)

# Plotting Pam over Vanuatu with labels every 6h on the right side of the observations
plotStorms(pam, labels = TRUE, by = 2, pos = 4)

# dynamicPlot mode

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