Analogues-package: Identification of climate analogues

Description Details Author(s) References

Description

Uses a climatic similarity statistic (based on the Euclidean distance) in conjunction with WorldClim and downscaled Global Climate Model (GCM) data to connect areas with similarity climates which may be spatially and/or temporally separated. A GUI is available to facilitate the more commonly used search functions. Depends: raster, rgdal, sp, stringr.

Details

Package: Analogues
Type: Package
Version: 3.0
Date: 2020-01-29
License: GPL 2

Select your location, search area, variables, growing season, rotation, and climate data. Then run to identify areas with similar climatic condition.

Author(s)

David Arango Lodono, Edward Jones, and Julian Ramirez-Villegas

Maintainer: Julian Ramirez-Villegas <j.r.villegas@cgiar.org>

References

Details of the CCAFS Climate Analogues technique in general may be found here: Ramirez-Villegas J, Lau C, Koehler A-K, Signer J, Jarvis A, Arnell N, Osborne T, Hooker J. 2011. Climate analogues: finding tomorrow's agriculture today. Working Paper no. 12. Cali, Colombia: CGIAR.


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