R package for accessing and processing climate data from ClimateNA. The climatenaR package provides functions to prepare Digital Elevation Models (DEM) as TIFF files into CSV files, access historical and future projected climate data,and reproject it. This package is very similar to my other package as part of the Silva21 Project silvR21 available on my Silva21 Github Page.
As an alternative to using the desktop application, histClimateNA permits the user to access historical means for monthly, seasonal, and annual mean data over 30 years, 10 years, and annual periods. These functions have the advantage of using DEM files located anywhere on your computer.
The projClimateNA tool enhances the access abilities with ClimateNA as it is easier to select GCM models, SSP scenarios, and date ranges by adjusting a few parameters. The DEM file used to access projected data must be located within the same directory as the ClimateNA application.
The guidelines for preparing a DEM file so that it can be correctly formatted for use with ClimateNA can be difficult to make properly. Errors are common and it is not always obvious how to correct them. The demToCSV tool is specifically designed to prepare any DEM TIFF file in the correct CSV format so that it can be inputted into either histClimateNA or projClimateNA.
After using the ASCII DEM file format as input within the ClimateNA desktop application, the resulting outputs are often not projected properly, so they would not appear in the correct location once inputted into ArcGIS. reprojectASCII will automatically reproject these images.
climatenaR is developed openly at UBC.
- Development of the climatenaR package started in 2022.
- First, you will need to install the
devtoolspackage. - Install the climatenaR package through GitHub with
devtools::install_github("burnett-m/climatenaR",build_vignettes = TRUE)