meteoland (version 0.9.7)

interpolationpoints: Interpolate daily meteorology over a landscape

Description

Functions to interpolate meteorological data for spatial locations (at points, grid pixels or full grids) using an object of class MeteorologyInterpolationData-class.

Usage

interpolationpoints(object, points, dates = NULL, export = FALSE,
                    exportDir = getwd(), exportFile = NULL, 
                    exportFormat = "meteoland/txt",
                    metadataFile = "MP.txt", verbose=TRUE)
interpolationpixels(object, pixels, dates = NULL, 
                    exportFile = NULL, exportFormat = "netCDF", 
                    add = FALSE, overwrite = FALSE, verbose=TRUE)
interpolationgrid(object, grid, dates = NULL, 
                  exportFile = NULL, exportFormat = "netCDF",
                  add = FALSE, overwrite = FALSE, verbose=TRUE)

Arguments

object

An object of class MeteorologyInterpolationData-class.

points

An object of class SpatialPointsTopography-class.

pixels

An object of class SpatialPixelsTopography-class representing the target landscape.

grid

An object of class SpatialGridTopography-class representing the target landscape.

dates

An object of class Date. If this is NULL then all dates in object are processed.

export

If export = FALSE the result of interpolation is stored in memory. Otherwise the result is written in the disk (using the format specified in exportFormat).

exportDir

Output directory for interpolated meteorology data files (txt/rds format).

exportFile

Output file for interpolated meteorology data (netCDF format).

exportFormat

Export format for meteorological data (see writemeteorologypoint). If format is "meteoland/txt", "meteoland/rds", "castanea/txt" or "castanea/rds" the function tries to write one file per point in exportDir. If format is "netCDF" the function will write data to a single file specified by exportFile.

metadataFile

The name of the ascii text file that will store the meta data describing all written files.

verbose

Boolean flag to print process information.

add

Boolean flag to indicate that NetCDF exists and data should be added/replaced.

overwrite

Boolean flag to force overwriting an existing NetCDF.

Value

If export = FALSE, function interpolationpoints returns an object of SpatialPointsMeteorology-class. If export = TRUE files and written in the disk. For text/rds format the function returns an object of class SpatialPointsDataFrame-class containing point meta data.

If export = FALSE, function interpolationpixels returns an object of SpatialPixelsMeteorology-class, or an object of SpatialPixelsDataFrame-class if a single date is interpolated. If export = TRUE, the function writes the results in a NetCDF.

If export = FALSE, function interpolationgrid returns an object of SpatialGridMeteorology-class, or an object of SpatialGridDataFrame-class if a single date is interpolated. If export = TRUE, the function writes the results in files and a data.frame with columns 'dir' and 'filename' is returned.

Details

CRS projection needs to be defined for both object and points/pixels/grid. If CRS projection is different between object and points/pixels/grid, the function transforms the coordinates of points/pixels/grid to adapt them to the CRS of object.

References

Thornton, P.E., Running, S.W., White, M. A., 1997. Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain. J. Hydrol. 190, 214<U+2013>251. doi:10.1016/S0022-1694(96)03128-9.

De Caceres M, Martin-StPaul N, Turco M, Cabon A, Granda V (2018) Estimating daily meteorological data and downscaling climate models over landscapes. Environmental Modelling and Software 108: 186-196.

See Also

penman, SpatialPointsTopography-class, SpatialGridTopography, SpatialPixelsTopography, MeteorologyInterpolationData

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(examplegridtopography)
data(exampleinterpolationdata)

####### INTERPOLATION on particular POINTS 

#Creates spatial topography points from the grid
p = 1:2
spt = as(examplegridtopography, "SpatialPointsTopography")[p]

#Interpolation of two points for the whole time period (2000-2003)
mp = interpolationpoints(exampleinterpolationdata, spt)

#Plot interpolated meteorological series
meteoplot(mp,1, ylab="Mean temperature")

####### INTERPOLATION on PIXELS 
# Creates spatial topography pixels as a subset of grid pixels
# and select pixels at maximum distance of 2km from center
spt = as(examplegridtopography,"SpatialPointsTopography")
cc = spt@coords
center = 5160
d = sqrt((cc[,1]-cc[center,1])^2+(cc[,2]-cc[center,2])^2)
spxt = as(spt[which(d<2000)], "SpatialPixelsTopography") 

# Interpolation of meteorology over pixels for two days
ml = interpolationpixels(exampleinterpolationdata, spxt,
                       as.Date(c("2001-02-03", "2001-06-03")))
                       
#Plot PET corresponding to 2001-06-03
spplot(ml,2,"PET")

####### INTERPOLATION over a complete GRID 
#Interpolation of meteorology over a grid for two days
ml = interpolationgrid(exampleinterpolationdata, examplegridtopography,
                       as.Date(c("2001-02-03", "2001-06-03")))
#Plot PET corresponding to 2001-06-03
spplot(ml,2,"PET")
# }