Process gridMET data — process

The process_gridmet() function imports and cleans raw gridded surface meteorological data, returning a single SpatRaster object.

Usage

process_gridmet(
  date = c("2023-09-01", "2023-09-10"),
  variable = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  extent = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

date: character(1 or 2). Date (1) or start and end dates (2). Format YYYY-MM-DD (ex. September 1, 2023 = "2023-09-01").
variable: character(1). Variable name or acronym code. See gridMET Generate Wget File for variable names and acronym codes. (Note: variable "Burning Index" has code "bi" and variable "Energy Release Component" has code "erc").
path: character(1). Directory with downloaded netCDF (.nc) files.
extent: numeric(4) or SpatExtent giving the extent of the raster if NULL (default), the entire raster is loaded
...: Placeholders.

Value

a SpatRaster object

Note

Layer names of the returned SpatRaster object contain the variable acronym, and date.

Author

Mitchell Manware

Examples

## NOTE: Example is wrapped in `\dontrun{}` as function requires a large
##       amount of data which is not included in the package.
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
gridmet <- process_gridmet(
  date = c("2023-01-01", "2023-01-10"),
  variable = "Precipitation",
  path = "./data/pr"
)
} # }