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bcgov / climr

An R package for downscaling monthly climate data for North America
https://bcgov.github.io/climr/
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add heat load index #145

Open cmahony opened 8 months ago

cmahony commented 8 months ago

in the long run, it would be nice to modify temperature for effects of insolation and topographic shading. that's a heavy lift, though. in the short run, we could include static layers such as the 30m ALOS CHILI (Continuous Heat-Insolation Load Index) . these could be upscaled to the user grid, or sampled directly for point locations. @kdaust @CeresBarros something for us to discuss.

cmahony commented 6 months ago

been talking to derek van der Kamp. he said:

I’m in the process of putting together a suite of R packages around microclimate and fuel moisture modelling, so it would likely be easy to integrate some of those models into climr.

There is a model that’s a little ahead of me on this: microclima:

https://github.com/ilyamaclean/microclima https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13093

I’ve looked under the hood a little bit, and there’s some questionable stuff in the code that doesn’t make sense to me, but it could be a jumping off point.