ini_terraclimate {QBMS}

Download TerraClimate netCDF Data Files to Extract their Data Offline

Description

Download TerraClimate netCDF Data Files to Extract their Data Offline

Usage

ini_terraclimate(
  from = "2019-09-01",
  to = "2022-06-30",
  clim_vars = c("ppt", "tmin", "tmax"),
  data_path = "./data/",
  timeout = 300
)

Arguments

from

Start date as a string in the 'YYYY-MM-DD' format.

to

End date as a string in the 'YYYY-MM-DD' format.

clim_vars

List of all climate variables to be imported. Valid list includes: aet, def, pet, ppt, q, soil, srad, swe, tmax, tmin, vap, ws, vpd, and PDSI. Default is NULL for all.

data_path

String containing the directory path where downloaded netCDF files exist (default is './data/')

timeout

Timeout in seconds to download each netCDF raster file (default is 300).

Author(s)

Khaled Al-Shamaa, [e-mail]

See Also

get_terraclimate

Examples

if (interactive()) {
  ini_terraclimate('2018-09-01', '2019-06-30', c('ppt', 'tmin', 'tmax'))
  
  x <- c(-6.716, 35.917, 76.884)
  y <- c(33.616, 33.833, 23.111)
  
  a <- get_terraclimate(y, x, '2018-09-01', '2019-06-30', c('ppt', 'tmin', 'tmax'))
  
  a$climate[[1]]
  a$biovars[[1]]
  
  b <- get_terraclimate(y, x, '2018-09-01', '2019-06-30', c('ppt', 'tmin', 'tmax'), offline = TRUE)
  
  b$climate[[1]]
  b$biovars[[1]]
}