laketemps (version 0.5.1)

get_climate: get climate data according to lake name from GLTC dataset

Description

Climate data compiled for the Global Lake Temperature Collaboration can be accessed and returned as data.frames. See associated publication and references therein for details including units and data provenance.

Usage

get_climate(lake_name, types)

Arguments

lake_name

a valid name of a lake in the GLTC dataset (see get_lake_names). lake_name is case insensitive.

types

name for the climate data (see get_climate_names). types is case insensitive. All data are returned if this argument is missing.

Value

a lake data.frame, or an empty data.frame if no data exist

References

Sharma, Sapna; Gray, Derek; Read, Jordan; O'Reilly, Catherine; Schneider, Philipp; Qudrat, Anam; Gries, Corinna; Stefanoff, Samantha; Hampton, Stephanie; Hook, Simon; Lenters, John; Livingstone, David; McIntyre, Peter; Adrian, Rita; Allan, Mathew; Anneville, Orlane; Arvola, Lauri; Austin, Jay; Bailey, John; Baron, Jill; Brookes, Justin; Chen, Yuwei; Daly, Robert; Dokulil, Martin; Dong, Bo; Ewing, Kye; de Eyto, Elvira; Hamilton, David; Havens, Karl; Haydon, Shane; Hetzenauer, Harald; Heneberry, Joceylene; Hetherington, Amy; Higgins, Scott; Hixcon, Eric; Izmest'eva, Lyubov; Jones, Benjamin; Kangur, Kullli; Kasprzak, Peter; Koster, Olivier; Kraemer, Benjamin; Kumagai, Michio; Kuusisto, Esko; Leshkevich, George; May, Linda; MacIntyre, Sally; Mueller-Navarra, Doerthe; Naumenko, Mikhail; Noges, Peeter; Noges, Tiina; Niederhauser, Pius; North, Ryan; Paterson, Andrew; Plisnier, Pierre-Denis; Rigosi, Anna; Rimmer, Alon; Rogora, Michela; Rudstram, Lars; Rusak, James; Salmaso, Nico; Samal, Nihar; Schindler, Daniel; Schladow, Geoffrey; Schmidt, Silke; Schultz, Tracey; Silow, Eugene; Straile, Dietmar; Teubner, Katrin; Verburg, Piet; Voutilainen, Ari; Watkinson, Andrew; Weyhenmeyer, Gesa; Williamson, Craig; Woo, Kara (2014): Globally distributed lake surface water temperatures collected in situ and by satellites; 1985-2009. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/379a6cebee50119df2575c469aba19c5

See Also

get_climate_names, get_lake_names, get_surface_temps

Examples

get_climate_names()
get_climate('Victoria', types = c('Radiation.Shortwave.Summer', 'Air.Temp.Mean.Summer.NCEP'))
get_climate('Mendota')
get_climate('mendota','radiation.shortwave.summer')