ggstripes: Warming stripes graph

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Warming stripes graph

Description

Plot different "climate stripes" or "warming stripes" using ggplot2. These graphics are visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in each location over the past 70-100+ years. Each stripe represents the temperature in that station averaged over a year.

Usage

ggstripes(
  data,
  plot_type = "stripes",
  plot_title = "",
  n_temp = 11,
  col_pal = "RdBu",
  ...
)

Arguments

data	A data.frame with date (year) and temperature (temp) variables.
plot_type	Plot type. Accepted values are "background", "stripes", "trend" or "animation".
plot_title	Character string to be used for the plot title.
n_temp	Numeric value with the number of colors of the palette. (default 11).
col_pal	Character string indicating the name of the hcl.pals() color palette to be used for plotting.
...	Further arguments passed to ggplot2::theme().

Value

A ggplot2 object. See help("ggplot2").

API key

You need to set your API key globally using aemet_api_key(). Query timeout can be controlled with options(climaemet_timeout = 60) (default value). See httr2::req_timeout() for details.

Note

"Warming stripes" charts are a conceptual idea of Professor Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) and are specifically designed to be as simple as possible and to warn about climate change risks. For more details, see ShowYourStripes.

See Also

climatestripes_station(), ggplot2::theme() for more possible arguments to pass to ggstripes().

Plotting functions: climatestripes_station(), climatogram_normal(), climatogram_period(), ggclimat_walter_lieth(), ggwindrose(), windrose_days(), windrose_period()

Warming stripes functions: climaemet_9434_temp, climatestripes_station()

Examples

library(ggplot2)

data <- climaemet::climaemet_9434_temp

ggstripes(data, plot_title = "Zaragoza Airport") +
  labs(subtitle = "(1950-2020)")

ggstripes(data, plot_title = "Zaragoza Airport", plot_type = "trend") +
  labs(subtitle = "(1950-2020)")

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