getLOCA: Get LOCA Climate Data for an Area of Interest

In mikejohnson51/climateR: climateR

Get LOCA Climate Data for an Area of Interest

Description

LOCA is a statistical downscaling technique that uses past history to add improved fine-scale detail to global climate models. LOCA has been used to downscale 32 global climate models from the CMIP5 archive at a 1/16th degree spatial resolution, covering North America from central Mexico through Southern Canada. The historical period is 1950-2005, and there are two future scenarios available: RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 over the period 2006-2100 (although some models stop in 2099). The variables currently available are daily minimum and maximum temperature, and daily precipitation. For more information visit: http://loca.ucsd.edu/.

Usage

getLOCA(
  AOI,
  varname,
  model = "CCSM4",
  scenario = "rcp45",
  startDate,
  endDate = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE,
  ID = NULL,
  dryrun = FALSE
)

Arguments

AOI	an sf of SpatVect point or polygon to extract data for
varname	variable name to extract (e.g. tmin)
model	GCM model name generating
scenario	A climate or modeling scenario
startDate	a start date given as "YYYY-MM-DD" to extract data for
endDate	an end date given as "YYYY-MM-DD" to extract data for
verbose	Should messages be emited?
ID	a column of unique identifiers
dryrun	Return summary of data prior to retrieving it

Value

if AOI is polygon a list of SpatRasters, if AOI is a point then a data.frame of modeled records.

See Also

Other shortcuts: get3DEP(), getBCCA(), getCABCM(), getCHIRPS(), getDaymet(), getGLDAS(), getGridMET(), getISRIC_soils(), getLCMAP(), getLOCA_hydro(), getLivneh_fluxes(), getLivneh(), getMACA(), getMODIS(), getNASADEM(), getNLCD(), getNLDAS(), getPRISM(), getTerraClimNormals(), getTerraClim(), getVIC(), getWorldClim()

mikejohnson51/climateR documentation built on March 27, 2024, 5:31 p.m.