process_gridmet: Process gridMET data

In amadeus: Accessing and Analyzing Large-Scale Environmental Data

Process gridMET data

Description

The process_gridmet() function imports and cleans raw gridded surface meteorological data, returning a single SpatRaster object.

Usage

process_gridmet(
  date = c("2023-09-01", "2023-09-10"),
  variable = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  extent = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

date	character(1 or 2). Date (1) or start and end dates (2). Format YYYY-MM-DD (ex. September 1, 2023 = "2023-09-01").
variable	character(1). Variable name or acronym code. See gridMET Generate Wget File for variable names and acronym codes. (Note: variable "Burning Index" has code "bi" and variable "Energy Release Component" has code "erc").
path	character(1). Directory with downloaded netCDF (.nc) files.
extent	numeric(4) or SpatExtent giving the extent of the raster if NULL (default), the entire raster is loaded
...	Placeholders.

Value

a SpatRaster object

Note

Layer names of the returned SpatRaster object contain the variable acronym, and date.

Author(s)

Mitchell Manware

Examples

## NOTE: Example is wrapped in `\dontrun{}` as function requires a large
##       amount of data which is not included in the package.
## Not run: 
gridmet <- process_gridmet(
  date = c("2023-01-01", "2023-01-10"),
  variable = "Precipitation",
  path = "./data/pr"
)

## End(Not run)

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