utilities: Various utilities functions for AURELHY

In aurelhy: Hydrometeorological interpolation

Description

These functions manipulate geographical coordinates in various ways to optimize computation of the AURELHY method.

Usage

deg.lat(latitude)
deg.lon(latitude)
polar.coords(geomat, x, y, maxdist)
match.coords(points, table, tol = 0.002)
coords(x, ...)
resample(x, ...)
add.points(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'geomask'
add.points(x, geopoints, ...)
dist2sea(geotm)

Arguments

latitude	the latitude in decimal degrees
geomat	a 'geomat' object
x	X coordinate of the reference point for polar.coords(), or a correct object for the other functions
y	Y coordinate of the reference point
maxdist	maximum distance to consider in km. All points whose distance from the reference point is larger are not considered in the calculation
points	a list or data frame with X and Y coordinates of the points to match to the reference points (in decimal degrees, for instance)
table	a similar list or data frame with X(ref) and Y(ref) coordinates of the reference points to be matched (in the same units as for points)
tol	the maximum tolerance in X and Y units to consider points are matching, that is, X +/- tol = X(ref) and Y +/- tol = Y(ref)
...	further arguments passed to the method
geopoints	a geopoints object from which we want to add corresponding points in a geomask
geotm	a geotm object

Details

deg.lat() and deg.lon() provide the length of one degree in, respectively, latitude and longitude in km, given the corresponding latitude in decimal degrees. The ellipsoid defined in WGS84 model is used for these calculations. polar.coords() calculates polar coordinates of points. match.coords() selects points with matching coordinates, given a tolerance distance between the reference points (i.e., from a geotm grid, using coords(my_geotm, "xy")) and the points to match (stations). coords() is a generic function that extracts geographical coordinates from one object in different fashions. resample is a generic function to resample a grid ('geomat' object). add.points add points from a geopoints object in a geomask. dist2sea() calculate the distance of points in a geotm object to the sea.

Value

deg.lat() and deg.lon() return the length of one degree in km. polar.coords() returns a data frame with 'angle' in rad and 'dist'(ance) in km for the reference point to each point in the grid, within 'maxdist'. There is also a 'geomat' attribute containing the window of the initial 'geomat' object containing the considered points.

match.coords() returns a vector of logical of the same length as the number of colunms in the points data frame (that must contain 'x' and 'y' columns with coordinates of points to be matched).

Author(s)

Philippe Grosjean <[e-mail]>, and Francois Delobel for dist2sea()

See Also

geomat, auremask

Examples

# Size of one degree in latitude and longitude, given the latitude in decimal degrees
deg.lat(c(0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90))
# 110.574  110.649  110.852  111.132  111.412  111.618  111.694
deg.lon(c(0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90))
# 111.320  107.550  96.486  78.847  55.800  28.902  0.000

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