| Title | RNCEP: global weather and climate data at your fingertips |
|---|---|
| Published in | Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 3, p.65-70. ISSN 2041210x. |
| Author | M.U. Kemp; E.E. van Loon; J. Shamoun-Baranes; W. Bouten |
| Date | 2012 |
| Type | article |
| Abstract | Atmospheric conditions strongly influence ecological systems, and tools that simplify the access and processing of atmospheric data can greatly facilitate ecological research. We have developed RNCEP, a package of functions in the open-source R language, to access, organise and visualise freely available atmospheric data from two long-term high-quality data sets with global coverage. These functions retrieve data, via the Internet, for either a desired spatiotemporal extent or interpolated to a point in space and time. The package also contains functions to temporally aggregate data, producing user-defined variables, and to visualise these data on a map. By making access to atmospheric data and integration with biological data easier and more flexible, we hope to facilitate and encourage the exploration of relationships between biological systems and atmospheric conditions. |
| Publication | http://dare.uva.nl/record/407855 |
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| Persistent Identifier | urn:nbn:nl:ui:29-407855 |
| Metadata | XML |
| Repository | University of Amsterdam |
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