download_ao: Download Arctic Oscillation data

In boshek/renso: Import Various Northern and Southern Hemisphere Climate Indices

Download Arctic Oscillation data

Description

Projection of the daily 1000 hPa anomaly height field north of 20°N on the first EOF obtained from the monthly 1000 hPa height anomaly.

Usage

download_ao(use_cache = FALSE, file = NULL)

Arguments

use_cache	logical option to save and load from cache. If 'TRUE', results will be cached in memory if 'file' is 'NULL' or on disk if 'file' is not 'NULL'.
file	optional character with the full path of a file to save the data. If 'cache' is 'FALSE' but 'file' is not 'NULL', the results will be downloaded from the internet and saved on disk.

Value

• Date: Date object that uses the first of the month as a placeholder. Date formatted as date on the first of the month because R only supports one partial of date time

• Month: Month of record

• Year: Year of record

• AO: Arctic Oscillation

References

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/teleconnections/ao/

Examples

## Not run: 
ao <- download_ao()

## End(Not run)

boshek/renso documentation built on Nov. 3, 2023, 3:29 a.m.