get_daymet: Download and crop the 1-km DAYMET v4 daily weather dataset.

In ropensci/FedData: Download Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources

Download and crop the 1-km DAYMET v4 daily weather dataset.

Description

get_daymet returns a SpatRaster of weather data cropped to a given template study area.

Usage

get_daymet(
  template,
  label,
  elements = c("dayl", "prcp", "srad", "swe", "tmax", "tmin", "vp"),
  years = 1980:(lubridate::year(Sys.time()) - 1),
  region = "na",
  tempo = "day",
  extraction.dir = file.path(tempdir(), "FedData", "extractions", "daymet", label),
  raster.options = c("COMPRESS=DEFLATE", "ZLEVEL=9", "INTERLEAVE=BAND"),
  force.redo = FALSE,
  progress = TRUE
)

Arguments

template	An Simple Feature or SpatRaster object to serve as a template for cropping.
label	A character string naming the study area.
elements	A character vector of elements to extract. The available elements are: dayl = Duration of the daylight period in seconds per day. This calculation is based on the period of the day during which the sun is above a hypothetical flat horizon. prcp = Daily total precipitation in millimeters per day, sum of all forms converted to water-equivalent. Precipitation occurrence on any given day may be ascertained. srad = Incident shortwave radiation flux density in watts per square meter, taken as an average over the daylight period of the day. NOTE: Daily total radiation (MJ/m2/day) can be calculated as follows: ((srad (W/m2) * dayl (s/day)) / l,000,000) swe = Snow water equivalent in kilograms per square meter. The amount of water contained within the snowpack. tmax = Daily maximum 2-meter air temperature in degrees Celsius. tmin = Daily minimum 2-meter air temperature in degrees Celsius. vp = Water vapor pressure in pascals. Daily average partial pressure of water vapor.
years	A numeric vector of years to extract.
region	The name of a region. The available regions are: na = North America hi = Hawaii pr = Puerto Rico
tempo	The frequency of the data. The available tempos are: day = Daily data mon = Monthly summary data ann = Annual summary data
extraction.dir	A character string indicating where the extracted and cropped DEM should be put. Defaults to a temporary directory.
raster.options	a vector of GDAL options passed to terra::writeRaster.
force.redo	If an extraction for this template and label already exists in extraction.dir, should a new one be created?
progress	Draw a progress bar when downloading?

Value

A named list of SpatRasters of weather data cropped to the extent of the template.

Examples

## Not run: 
library(terra)

# Get the DAYMET (North America only)
# Returns a list of raster bricks
DAYMET <- get_daymet(
  template = FedData::meve,
  label = "meve",
  elements = c("prcp", "tmin", "tmax"),
  years = 1985
)

# Plot with terra::plot
plot(DAYMET$tmin$`1985-10-23`)

## End(Not run)

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