Download TerraClimate data — download

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 = TRUE,
  remove_command = FALSE,
  show_progress = TRUE,
  hash = FALSE,
  max_tries = 20,
  rate_limit = 2
)

Arguments

variables: character. Variable(s) name(s).
year: integer(1 or 2). Year or start/end years for downloading data.
directory_to_save: character(1). Directory to save data.
acknowledgement: logical(1). Must be TRUE to proceed.
download: logical(1). DEPRECATED. Downloads happen automatically.
remove_command: logical(1). Deprecated, ignored.
show_progress: logical(1). Show download progress (default TRUE)
hash: logical(1). Return hash of downloaded files (default FALSE)
max_tries: integer(1). Maximum retry attempts (default 20)
rate_limit: numeric(1). Minimum seconds between requests (default 2)

Value

invisible list with download results; or hash character if hash=TRUE

Note

TerraClimate data does not require authentication.

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.

Author

Mitchell Manware, Insang Song

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
download_terraclimate(
  variables = "ppt",
  year = 2023,
  directory_to_save = tempdir(),
  acknowledgement = TRUE
)
} # }