Select and Download Climate Data from 'DWD' (German Weather Service)

Handle climate data from the 'DWD' ('Deutscher Wetterdienst', see < https://www.dwd.de/EN/climate_environment/cdc/cdc_node_en.html> for more information). Choose observational time series from meteorological stations with 'selectDWD()'. Find raster data from radar and interpolation according to < https://brry.github.io/rdwd/raster-data.html>. Download (multiple) data sets with progress bars and no re-downloads through 'dataDWD()'. Read both tabular observational data and binary gridded datasets with 'readDWD()'.

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 (1999) and Richardson (1981) .

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.

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.".

Partitioning Uncertainty Components of an Incomplete Ensemble of Climate Projections

These functions apply an analysis of variance to incomplete ensembles of climate projections. It provides estimates of climate change responses of all simulation chains and of all uncertainty variables. It has been applied to different ensembles of projections simulated to study the impact of climate change: for climate indicators in Evin et al. (2019) ; seasonal precipitation and temperature in Evin, Somot and Hingray (2021) ; hydrological variables in Evin et al. (2026) ; photovoltaic energy in Bichet et al. (2019) .

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.

Integrating Phylogenetics and Climatic Niche Modeling

Implements some methods in phyloclimatic modeling: estimation of ancestral climatic niches, age-range-correlation, niche equivalency test and background-similarity test.

Bayesian Emulation of Computer Programs

Allows one to estimate the output of a computer program, as a function of the input parameters, without actually running it. The computer program is assumed to be a Gaussian process, whose parameters are estimated using Bayesian techniques that give a PDF of expected program output. This PDF is conditional on a training set of runs, each consisting of a point in parameter space and the model output at that point. The emphasis is on complex codes that take weeks or months to run, and that have a large number of undetermined input parameters; many climate prediction models fall into this class. The emulator essentially determines Bayesian posterior estimates of the PDF of the output of a model, conditioned on results from previous runs and a user-specified prior linear model. The package includes functionality to evaluate quadratic forms efficiently.

Climate Crop Zoning Based in Air Temperature for Brazil

Climate crop zoning based in minimum and maximum air temperature. The data used in the package are from 'TerraClimate' dataset (< https://www.climatologylab.org/terraclimate.html>), but, it have been calibrated with automatic weather stations of National Meteorological Institute of Brazil. The climate crop zoning of this package can be run for all the Brazilian territory.