Describes all the variables available in the database. — accClimateVariables • crestr

Provides the index and the short and full names of all the variables available in the database.

accClimateVariables(v = NA, domain = NA)

Arguments

v: The name of a variable to quickly access its description and ID (default NA returns all possible values).
domain: The domain ('Terrestrial' or 'Marine') of the variables. Default value is NA and both terrestrial and marine climate variable names are returned.

Value

A data frame descriptive of the climate variables available in the database (if v=NA) or the description of variable v.

See also

https://www.worldclim.org/data/bioclim.html for details on the 'bio' data, https://csidotinfo.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/global-aridity-index-and-potential-evapotranspiration-climate-database-v2/ for details on 'ai', https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-ocean-atlas for details on the sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity and nutrient Concentration data, or https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.highres.html for the sea ice concentration data.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  accClimateVariables()
  accClimateVariables(v='bio12')
}