download_terraclimate {amadeus}R Documentation

Download TerraClimate data

Description

The download_terraclimate function accesses and downloads climate and water balance data from the University of California Merced Climatology Lab's TerraClimate dataset.

Usage

download_terraclimate(
  variables = NULL,
  year = c(2018, 2022),
  directory_to_save = NULL,
  acknowledgement = FALSE,
  download = FALSE,
  remove_command = FALSE,
  hash = FALSE
)

Arguments

variables

character(1). Variable(s) name(s). See TerraClimate Direct Downloads for variable names and acronym codes.

year

character(1 or 2). length of 4. Year or start/end years for downloading data.

directory_to_save

character(1). Directory(s) to save downloaded data files.

acknowledgement

logical(1). By setting TRUE the user acknowledges that the data downloaded using this function may be very large and use lots of machine storage and memory.

download

logical(1). FALSE will generate a *.txt file containing all download commands. By setting TRUE the function will download all of the requested data files.

remove_command

logical(1). Remove (TRUE) or keep (FALSE) the text file containing download commands.

hash

logical(1). By setting TRUE the function will return an rlang::hash_file() hash character corresponding to the downloaded files. Default is FALSE.

Value

Author(s)

Mitchell Manware, Insang Song

References

Abatzoglou JT, Dobrowski SZ, Parks SA, Hegewisch KC (2018). “TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015.” Scientific data, 5(1), 1–12.

Examples

## Not run: 
download_terraclimate(
  variables = "Precipitation",
  year = 2023,
  directory_to_save = tempdir(),
  acknowledgement = TRUE,
  download = FALSE, # NOTE: download skipped for examples,
  remove_command = TRUE
)

## End(Not run)

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