In BirgerNi/degreedays: Returns monthly degree days from DWD for locations in Germany

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degreedays

The goal of degreedays is to download heating degree days from weather stations throughout Germany from DWD Climate Data Center (CDC) and provide some convenience functions.

Data set description:

Recent monthly degree days according to VDI 3807 for Germany, quality control not completed yet, version v19.3, last accessed: 2021-12-02.

More information may be found on the opendata-server.

Installation

You can install the development version of degreedays from GitHub.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("BirgerNi/degreedays")

Usage

You can download the whole data set with download_dwd_data.

library(degreedays)
df <- download_dwd_data()
df

library(magrittr)
library(degreedays)
df <- readr::read_rds(file = "data_test/dwd.rds")
df

You may want to convert data to tsibble and keep only complete or almost complete data sets.

tidy_hdd(df, threshold = 0.95)

Calculate the monthly mean for a given period with calc_monthly_mean().

df %>%
  tidy_hdd(threshold = 0.95) %>%
  calc_monthly_mean(from = 2006, to = 2020)

BirgerNi/degreedays documentation built on Jan. 1, 2022, 2:06 p.m.