read.imilast: Read cyclone data

In metno/esd: Climate analysis and empirical-statistical downscaling (ESD) package for monthly and daily data

Read cyclone data

Description

Methods for reading cyclone data.

Usage

read.imilast(fname, path = NULL, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

fname	filename (for read.hurdat, filename can also be a url)
path	path to file
verbose	a boolean; If FALSE, do not display comments (silent mode). If TRUE, display extra information on progress.

Details

read.imilast reads data from files following the standards of the IMILAST project (Neu et al., 2013, IMILAST: A Community Effort to Intercompare Extratropical Cyclone Detection and Tracking Algorithms. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, 529-547, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00154.1).

read.hurdat2 reads data from the Atlantic hurricane database (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#hurdat)

Value

An "events" "data.frame" object containing the date, time, lon, and lat, as well as additional information (e.g., trajectory number, slp or other measure of storm strength) of the cyclones.

Author(s)

K. Parding

metno/esd documentation built on March 9, 2024, 11:21 a.m.