select: Select annual climate variable from the annual dataset

In yuchuan-lai/scifi: Statistical Climate Forecasting Integrated for Civil and Environmental Engineering

Select annual climate variable from the annual dataset

Description

Processing downloaded annual climate records for a city for a particular temperature and precipitation variable.

Usage

select(city.hist.data, var.name, year.col.name = "Year", thresholds = 10)

Arguments

city.hist.data	A dataframe object that contains the different annual temperature and precipitaiton variable and years for a city. It can be a datafram object that is downloaded using download function.
var.name	A character object that specifies the column name of the selected climate variable in the city.hist.data.
year.col.name	A character object that specifies the column name used for the information of years in the city.hist.data.
thresholds	A number specifies the number of missing daily data acceptable for the selection of annual climate variable.

Value

A dataframe object that provides the information about the years and one selected climate variable for the city.

Author(s)

Yuchuan Lai

See Also

See Also as citylist and download.

Examples

# Download the annual data for Pittsburgh
pit.annual <- download("Pittsburgh", "annual")

# Process the annual data of Pittsburgh to obtain annual average temperature as a data.frame object
pit.temp <- select(pit.annual, "Avg.Temp")

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