KGClimateClass: Function to identify the updated Koppen-Greiger climate zone...

In hddtools: Hydrological Data Discovery Tools

Description

Given a bounding box, the function identifies the overlapping climate zones.

Usage

KGClimateClass(areaBox = NULL, updatedBy = "Peel", verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

areaBox	bounding box, a list made of 4 elements: minimum longitude (lonMin), minimum latitude (latMin), maximum longitude (lonMax), maximum latitude (latMax)
updatedBy	this can either be "Kottek" or "Peel"
verbose	if TRUE more info are printed on the screen

Value

List of overlapping climate zones.

Author(s)

Claudia Vitolo

References

Kottek et al. (2006): http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/. Peel et al. (2007): https://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/mpeel/koppen.html.

Examples

## Not run: 
  # Define a bounding box
  areaBox <- raster::extent(-3.82, -3.63, 52.41, 52.52)
  # Get climate classes
  KGClimateClass(areaBox = areaBox)

## End(Not run)

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