crestr (version 1.2.1)

accClimateVariables: Describes all the variables available in the database.

Description

Provides the index and the short and full names of all the variables available in the database.

Usage

accClimateVariables(v = NA, domain = NA)

Value

A data frame descriptive of the climate variables available in the database (if v=NA) or the description of variable v.

Arguments

v

The name of a variable to quickly access its description and ID (default NA returns all possible values).

domain

The domain ('Terrestrial' or 'Marine') of the variables. Default value is NA and both terrestrial and marine climate variable names are returned.

See Also

https://www.worldclim.org/data/bioclim.html for details on the 'bio' data, https://cgiarcsi.community/2019/01/24/global-aridity-index-and-potential-evapotranspiration-climate-database-v2/ for details on 'ai', https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-ocean-atlas for details on the sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity and nutrient Concentration data, or https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.highres.html for the sea ice concentration data.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  accClimateVariables()
  accClimateVariables(v='bio12')
}