Climate Variability Indices for Ecological Modelling

Supports analysis of trends in climate change, ecological and crop modelling.

Simulation of Sediment Archived Climate Proxy Records

Proxy forward modelling for sediment archived climate proxies such as Mg/Ca, d18O or Alkenones. The user provides a hypothesised "true" past climate, such as output from a climate model, and details of the sedimentation rate and sampling scheme of a sediment core. Sedproxy returns simulated proxy records. Implements the methods described in Dolman and Laepple (2018) .

Using CF-Compliant Calendars with Climate Projection Data

Support for all calendars as specified in the Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions for climate and forecasting data. The CF Metadata Conventions is widely used for distributing files with climate observations or projections, including the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) data used by climate change scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This package specifically allows the user to work with any of the CF-compliant calendars (many of which are not compliant with POSIXt). The CF time coordinate is formally defined in the CF Metadata Conventions document available at < https://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.12/cf-conventions.html#time-coordinate>.

Accessing NOAA Climate Data Online

Fetch data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Data Online (NOAA CDO) < https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/webservices/v2> API including daily, monthly, and yearly climate summaries, radar data, climatological averages, precipitation data, annual summaries, storm events, and agricultural meteorology.

Non-Homogeneous Markov Switching Autoregressive Models

Calibration, simulation, validation of (non-)homogeneous Markov switching autoregressive models with Gaussian or von Mises innovations. Penalization methods are implemented for Markov Switching Vector Autoregressive Models of order 1 only. Most functions of the package handle missing values.

Climate Indices

Computes 138 standard climate indices at monthly, seasonal and annual resolution. These indices were selected, based on their direct and significant impacts on target sectors, after a thorough review of the literature in the field of extreme weather events and natural hazards. Overall, the selected indices characterize different aspects of the frequency, intensity and duration of extreme events, and are derived from a broad set of climatic variables, including surface air temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, wind speed, cloudiness, solar radiation, and snow cover. The 138 indices have been classified as follow: Temperature based indices (42), Precipitation based indices (22), Bioclimatic indices (21), Wind-based indices (5), Aridity/ continentality indices (10), Snow-based indices (13), Cloud/radiation based indices (6), Drought indices (8), Fire indices (5), Tourism indices (5).

Simulating Climate Data for Research and Modelling

Generate synthetic station-based monthly climate time-series including temperature and rainfall, export to Network Common Data Form (NetCDF), and provide visualization helpers for climate workflows. The approach is inspired by statistical weather generator concepts described in Wilks (1992) and Richardson (1981) .

PaleoPhyloGeographic Modeling of Climate Niches and Species Distributions

Reconstruction of paleoclimate niches using phylogenetic comparative methods and projection reconstructed niches onto paleoclimate maps. The user can specify various models of trait evolution or estimate the best fit model, include fossils, use one or multiple phylogenies for inference, and make animations of shifting suitable habitat through time. This model was first used in Lawing and Polly (2011), and further implemented in Lawing et al (2016) and Rivera et al (2020). Lawing and Polly (2011) "Pleistocene climate, phylogeny and climate envelope models: An integrative approach to better understand species' response to climate change" Lawing et al (2016) "Including fossils in phylogenetic climate reconstructions: A deep time perspective on the climatic niche evolution and diversification of spiny lizards (Sceloporus)" Rivera et al (2020) "Reconstructing historical shifts in suitable habitat of Sceloporus lineages using phylogenetic niche modelling.".

Statistical Downscaling of Climate Predictions

Statistical downscaling and bias correction of climate predictions. It includes implementations of commonly used methods such as Analogs, Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, and Bias Correction techniques, as well as interpolation functions for regridding and point-based applications. It facilitates the production of high-resolution and local-scale climate information from coarse-scale predictions, which is essential for impact analyses. The package can be applied in a wide range of sectors and studies, including agriculture, water management, energy, heatwaves, and other climate-sensitive applications. The package was developed within the framework of the European Union Horizon Europe projects Impetus4Change (101081555) and ASPECT (101081460), the Wellcome Trust supported HARMONIZE project (224694/Z/21/Z), and the Spanish national project BOREAS (PID2022-140673OA-I00). Implements the methods described in Duzenli et al. (2024) .

Plotting Functions for Climate Science and Services

A plotting package for climate science and services. Provides a set of functions for visualizing climate data, including maps, time series, scorecards and other diagnostics. Some functions are adapted and extended from the 's2dv' and 'CSTools' packages (Manubens et al. (2018) ; Pérez-Zanón et al. (2022) ), with more consistent and integrated functionalities.