plotAnnualCycle: Plots the annual cycle

In wux: Wegener Center Climate Uncertainty Explorer

Description

plotAnnualCycle plots the monthly or seasonal annual cycle of indicated models and the box-whisker plots of the underlying distribution.

This plotting routine extracts all the information from the input data frame which has to be 'WUX-style' (see models2wux).

Usage

plotAnnualCycle(datain.df, var.name = NULL, subreg.subset = NULL,
season.subset = NULL, plot.quantiles = NULL, quantile.method = 7,
mark.df = NULL, plot.legend = FALSE, cex.names = 1.2, cex.lab = 1.2,
ylab = NULL, main = NULL, out.file.directory = NULL, out.file.name =
NULL, copyright = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

datain.df	WUX data frame obtained from models2wux.
var.name	Character string of parameter in WUX dataset.
subreg.subset	Vector of subregions to be plotted (e.g. c("EU.ENS", "GAR")).
season.subset	Vector of seasons to be plotted (e.g. c("MAM", "DJF")).
plot.quantiles	5 element vector indictaing the quantiles to be plotted (e.g. c(0.02,0.25,0.5,0.75,0.98)).
quantile.method	An integer between 1 and 9 selecting one of the nine quantile types in quantiles with default 7.
mark.df	Subset of WUX data frame indicating the models to be marked.
plot.legend	Boolean. Indicating if a plot legend indicating the models of mark.df and sample size should be plotted. Default is FALSE.
cex.names	Expansion factor for numeric axis labels in bxp. Default is 1.2.
cex.lab	Expansion factor for axis names (bar labels) in bxp. Default is 1.2.
ylab	Label for y-axis.
main	Main title.
out.file.directory	String of the directory where the plots are exported (e.g. "/tmp/plots/").
out.file.name	Prefix of the file names of the plots. Files will be stored as out.file.name_subreg_season.eps, where subreg is one realization of the subreg.subset argument and season is one realization of season.subset. For example: out.file.name = "AnnualCycle" will store to the files to AnnualCycle_EUROPE_DJF.eps and AnnualCycle_EUROPE_JJA.eps.
copyright	Boolean. If a copyright message should be plotted. Default is FALSE.
...	Further optional arguments passed to bxp.

Author(s)

Georg Heinrich [e-mail]

Examples

## load WUX and read WUX test data
require(wux)
data(ensembles)

wuxtest.df <- subset(ensembles, subreg == "GAR")

## set data frame for model marks
mark.df <- subset(wuxtest.df, acronym %in% c("ICTP-REGCM3", "MPI-M-REMO"))
mark.df2 <- gdata::drop.levels(mark.df)

## Not run: plotAnnualCycle(wuxtest.df, "perc.delta.precipitation_amount", mark.df =
mark.df, plot.legend = TRUE, boxfill = "light yellow", notch =
FALSE,  boxwex = 0.5, ylim = c(-60,60), plot.quantiles =
c(0.02,0.25,0.5,0.75,0.98), boxcol = "red", ylab = "Precipitation
Amount [%]", main = "Annual cycle ", las = 1, copyright = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

wux documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:03 p.m.