download_data {pRecipe}

Download various precipitation data products

Description

The function download_data downloads the selected data product.

Usage

download_data(
  dataset = "all",
  path = ".",
  domain = "raw",
  timestep = "monthly"
)

Arguments

dataset

a character string with the name(s) of the desired data set. Suitable options are:

• "all" for all of the below listed data sets (default),

• "20cr" for 20CR v3,

• "chirps" for CHIRPS v2.0,

• "cmap" for CMAP standard version,

• "cmorph" for CMORPH,

• "cpc" for CPC-Global,

• "cru-ts" for CRU_TS v4.06,

• "em-earth" for EM-EARTH,

• "era20c" for ERA-20C,

• "era5" for ERA5,

• "fldas" for FLDAS,

• "ghcn" for GHCN-M v2,

• "gldas-clsm" for GLDAS CLSM,

• "gldas-noah" for GLDAS NOAH,

• "gldas-vic" for GLDAS VIC,

• "gpcc" for GPCC v2020,

• "gpcp" for GPCP v2.3,

• "gpm_imerg" for GPM IMERGM Final v06,

• "jra55" for JRA-55,

• "merra2" for MERRA-2,

• "mswep" for MSWEP v2.8,

• "ncep-doe" for NCEP/DOE,

• "ncep-ncar" for NCEP/NCAR,

• "persiann" for PERSIANN-CDR,

• "precl" for PREC/L,

• "terraclimate" for TerraClimate,

• "trmm-3b43" for TRMM 3B43 v7,

• "udel" for UDEL v501.

path

a character string with the path where the database will be downloaded.

domain

a character string with the desired domain data set. Suitable options are:

• "raw" for default available spatial coverage,

• "global" for data sets with global (land and ocean) coverage,

• "land" for data sets with land only coverage,

• "ocean", for data sets with ocean only coverage.

timestep

a character string with the desired time resolution. Suitable options are:

• "monthly",

• "yearly".

Value

No return value, called to download the required data sets.

Examples

download_data("gldas-vic", tempdir(), timestep = "yearly")