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Functions for working with the PLHDB data tables

Prepare workspace

  Sys.setenv(TZ = 'UTC')

  library(plhdbR)
  load_plhdb_packages()

Utility functions for climate data

plhdbR includes functions for pulling the most recent data for several large-scale climate oscillation indices from various online data repositories. Supported climate indices include:

• Dipole Mode index ("dmi")
• Multivariate ENSO Index ("mei")
• Oceanic Niño Index ("oni")
• Southern Oscillation Index ("soi")
• Pacific Decadal Oscillation ("pdo")
• Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation ("amo")
• North Atlantic Oscillation ("nao")

The function load_climate_index returns a named list of monthly climate index data. Each element of the list is an object of class dplyr::tbl_df.

  indices <- load_climate_index(c("nao", "mei"))

  indices

Squash all the list elements together to a single tbl_df with dplyr::bind_rows:

  indices_df <- dplyr::bind_rows(indices)
  summary(indices_df)

camposfa/plhdbR documentation built on May 13, 2019, 11:02 a.m.