eca.input: ECA &D station data files

View source: R/ecadinputfun.R

eca.inputR Documentation

ECA &D station data files

Description

This function reads and prepares the station data files from the European Climate Assessment and Dataset (ECA&D) for use in climdex

Usage

eca.input(filename, var.name, date.name)

Arguments

filename

File name and path of station data file.

var.name

A varialbe name from the ECA\&D variavle list: prec (RR), tavg (TG), tmax (TX), tmin(TN), sun (SS), wind_gust (FX), wind (FG).

data.name

Always DATE

Value

A data frame containing two columns: DATE with dates in PCICt format and "var.name" the varialbe name.

Author(s)

Christiana Photiadou (KNMI)

References

http://www.ecad.eu/

Examples

library(PCICt)

## Create a climdexInput object from some data already loaded in and
## ready to go.

## Parse the dates into PCICt.
tmax.dates <- as.PCICt(do.call(paste, ec.1018935.tmax[,c("year",
"jday")]), format="%Y %j", cal="gregorian")
tmin.dates <- as.PCICt(do.call(paste, ec.1018935.tmin[,c("year",
"jday")]), format="%Y %j", cal="gregorian")
prec.dates <- as.PCICt(do.call(paste, ec.1018935.prec[,c("year",
"jday")]), format="%Y %j", cal="gregorian")

## Load the data in.
ci <- climdexInput.raw(ec.1018935.tmax$MAX_TEMP,
ec.1018935.tmin$MIN_TEMP, ec.1018935.prec$ONE_DAY_PRECIPITATION,
tmax.dates, tmin.dates, prec.dates, base.range=c(1971, 2000))

## Create 

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