Ingests NCEP NARR gridded climate data and joins to counties and tracts.
.csv files for counties and tracts.
This repo: \
- Ingests NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) data on mean air temperature and relative humidity for July 2021.\
- Downloads spatial geographies for counties and tracts from U.S. Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.\
- Spatially joins the gridded NARR data to the county and tract geographies. - Assigns temperature and relative humidity values to counties and tracts using sf::st_join(..., larger = T).\
- Calculates wet bulb temperatures for counties and tracts as a function of temperature and humidity according to Stull (2011).
Monthly mean temperature raster from NARR
Gridded NARR temperature data for grids intersecting with the state of Maryland
Grids with tracts overlaid showing spatial join
Final value assignment to tracts. Uses sf::st_join(.., largest = T, left = T).
