cpc_get_rawdata: Download raw rainfall data from CPC for time period of...

In epijim/raincpc: Obtain and Analyze Rainfall data from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC)

Description

This function obtains data from the CPC ftp site for any time period from 1979/1/1 to the present day.

Usage

  cpc_get_rawdata(begYr, begMo, begDay, endYr, endMo,
    endDay)

Arguments

begYr	beginning year of the time period of interest, 1979 - 2012
begMo	beginning month of the time period of interest, 1 - 12
begDay	beginning day of the time period of interest, 1 - 28/29/30/31
endYr	ending year of the time period of interest, 1979 -2012
endMo	ending month of the time period of interest, 1 - 12
endDay	ending day of the time period of interest, 1 - 28/29/30/31

Details

It is assumed that the ending year, month and day follow the beginning year, month and day. Although CPC data is revised each day, a buffer of two days is created - i.e., this function will only let you download data till the day before yesterday!

Output is either a ".gz" file (1979 - 2008) or a ".bin" file (2009 - 2013).

Examples

# CPC data for two days, Jul 11-12 2005
cpc_get_rawdata(2005, 7, 11, 2005, 7, 12)

epijim/raincpc documentation built on May 16, 2019, 8:18 a.m.