build.global.climate: build.global.climate

In mrke/NicheMapR: R implementation of Niche Mapper software for biophysical modelling

build.global.climate

Description

Downloads and builds the global climate, elevation and soil moisture datasets used in the function micro_global. The global climate dataset global.nc is generated from "New, M., Lister, D., Hulme, M. and Makin, I., 2002: A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas. Climate Research 21:1-25", specically 10' estimates of monthly mean (over 1961-1990) preceipitation, wet-days, air temperature, diurnal temperature range, relative humidity and wind speed. Cloud cover comes from a bilinear interpolation of a lower resolution version of this dataset (New, M., M. Hulme, and P. D. Jones. 1999. Representing twentieth century space-time climate variability. Part 1: development of a 1961-90 mean monthly terrestrial climatology. Journal of Climate 12:829-856.). The micro_global function optionaly uses a global monthly soil moisture estimate from NOAA CPC Soil Moisture http://140.172.38.100/psd/ thredds/catalog/Datasets/cpcsoil/catalog.html

Usage

get.global.climate(folder)

Arguments

folder

Path to the folder you want to install the global climate data in

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