⚠️ The package is currently still in early development.

ClimHub

ClimHub is an R Package for downloading and processing a variety of climate data products. The package interfaces with select data products provided by:

1. The Climate Data Store (CDS) hosted by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
2. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute

ClimHub contains functionality centred on four distinct groups of R functions:

1. Data Discovery.
   • Indexing and metadata querying of climate data accessible via ClimHub
2. Data Access.
   • Download of met.no data products via direct file transfer
   • Download of ECMWF CDS data products via API calls
3. Data Processing.
   • Spatial Operations:
     • Cropping and masking
     • Reprojection
   • Temporal Operations
     • Aggregation
     • Decumulation
   • Calculation of Aggregate Metrics/Indices
4. Data Dissemination.
   • Data provenance via metadata

How to Cite

ClimHub has not been published yet. Please cite it for the time being as you would any other GitHub page.

How to Contribute

I will explain how to make feature requests or report bugs here as soon as I have prepared issue templates for these purposes.

Installation

ClimHub is not yet on CRAN, so it needs to be installed as such:

devtools::install_github("https://github.com/Clim-Hub/ClimHub")
library(ClimHub)

To access ECMWF CDS data products, users require personal CDS API-access tokens which can be obtained here.

Walkthrough

A walkthrough of the basic functionality of ClimHub will be developed and added here when data visualisation and automated code coverage and testing is in place.