futureheatwaves (version 1.0.3)

processReference: Get projection data for reference period

Description

This function is only run if the reference period is different from the projection period. In that case, this function will acquire the time series of projected temperatures during the indicated reference period and pass that through to be used in a later function to characterize heat waves.

Usage

processReference(model, global, custom)

Arguments

model

List with parsed information about the directory structure for a specific climate model from the user-specified projections directory. This list is a subset of the list generated by acquireDirectoryStructure.

global

An list object created by gen_hw_set that includes user specifications (e.g., the path to the output directory, the path to the input climate projections, the dataframe with city locations).

custom

An list object created by gen_hw_set that includes user specifications (e.g., the name of the R function to use to identify heat waves, alternative upper and lower year boundaries for the data used to determine threshold temperatures for the heat wave definition, alternative upper and lower year boundaries for the projection period of the heat wave datasets being generated).

Value

A list with, among other elements, a series element with the time series of projected temperatures for the reference period for each study city.