ccafs
R client for Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) General Circulation Models (GCM) data.
Package Docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/ccafs/
About CCAFS
The CCAFS-Climate data portal (http://ccafs-climate.org/) provides global and regional future high-resolution climate datasets that serve as a basis for assessing the climate change impacts and adaptation in a variety of fields including biodiversity, agricultural and livestock production, and ecosystem services and hydrology. CCAFS data can be used by anyone from scientists studying climate change, and how climate impacts various aspects of the earth, to companies projecting crop yields in the future. Search google scholar with "CCAFS" "GCM"
to see example uses.
These open-access datasets are hosted by Amazon Web Services. CCAFS GCM data for this package comes from Amazon S3 (root path: http://cgiardata.s3.amazonaws.com)
As far as I can tell, CCAFS GCM data comes from IPCC data.
About Amazon S3
Amazon S3 stands for "Simple Storage Service" - it's like a file system, and they give you links to the files and metadata around those links.
S3 is split up into buckets, essentially folder. All CCAFS data is in one bucket. Within the CCAFS bucket on S3 are a series of nested folders. To get to various files we need to navigate down the tree of folders. Keys are file paths with all their parent folders, e.g., "/foo/bar/1/2". Unfortunately, there's no meaningful search of the CCCAFS data as they have on their website http://ccafs-climate.org/. However, you can set a prefix for a search of these keys, e.g., "/foo/bar" for the key above.
Check out https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ for more info.
About the package
ccafs
is a client to work with the data CCAFS provides via Amazon Web
Services S3 data.
The ccafs
data has access to is the "Spatial Downscaling" data that you see
on the http://ccafs-climate.org/data/ page. The other data sets are not
open.
Citations
Cite CCAFS data following their guidelines at http://ccafs-climate.org/about/
Get a citation for this package like citation(package = 'ccafs')
after
installing the package.
raster
The main useful output are raster
package objects of class RasterLayer
or RasterBrick
- so in general have raster
loaded in your session to maximize
happiness.
Install
CRAN version
install.packages("ccafs")
Development version
remotes::install_github("ropensci/ccafs")
library("ccafs")
Documentation
Package Docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/ccafs/
Meta
- Please report any issues or bugs.
- License: MIT
- Get citation information for
ccafs
in R doingcitation(package = 'ccafs')
- Please note that this package is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.