plotclim

AgMIP climate data visualization scripts (in R)

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By Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Democritus University of Thrace
Last updated September 15, 2013
Version: 0.9 ("Uganda")

This software is distributed under the GPL licence (GPL>v3)

It has been developed in Machakos, Kenya, during the 4th East Africa AgMIP Regional Workshop, with the assistance of the AgMIP East Africa climate team.

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This collection of scripts aim to help AgMIP climate team to generate some common visualizations for their reports.

##To generate box plots

1. Load the main script file

    source("plotclim.R")
   

• Change directory where your AgMIP files are. ie:

    setwd("/Users/ioannis/sample");
  

  On Windows, set the path as: setwd("C:/Users/ioannis/sample")

• Generate box plots diagrams by passing three arguments a. Station name 4-letter code (i.e.ETAG)

  • Climate scenarios one-lettered code (i.e I). Consult the AgMIP notation for climate files.

  • Climate variables (one of TMAX,TMIN,RAIN).
    Example:

      saveBoxPlots("ETAG",c("G","I","K","M"),c("TMAX","TMIN","RAIN"));
    

  Output is stored in the working folder always with the same name: "ETAG_boxplots.pdf". Consequetive runs will overwrite the file.

##To generate probability density function plots
Follow the same steps as before with the savePDFs script. Example:

savePDFs("ETAG",c("G","I","K","M"),c("TMAX","TMIN","RAIN"));